Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 161

• Imitation cannot go above its model.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imitation, Models

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.143, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, Perspective

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.208, Penguin

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• These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Danger, Calamity

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• The wings of Time are black and white,
  Pied with morning and with night.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Time, Black And White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Shining, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.240, Library of America

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• We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Intelligent, Intelligence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Contemporary American psychiatrist
  It is a happy talent to know how to play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Childhood

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• There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Benefits, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

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• Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Song, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.42, Editora Dracaena

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• The solid, solid universe
  Is pervious to Love;
  With bandaged eyes he never errs,
  Around, below, above.
  His blinding light
  He flingeth white
  On God's and Satan's brood,
  And reconciles
  By mystic wiles
  The evil and the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Eye, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, University of Missouri Press

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• A ruddy drop of manly blood
  The surging sea outweighs;
  The world uncertain comes and goes,
  The lover rooted stays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Blood, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.339, Library of America

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• Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.46, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Venus, when her son was lost,
  Cried him up and down the coast,
  In hamlets, palaces, and parks,
  And told the truant by his marks,-
  Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Son, Curls

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.135, Delphi Classics

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• it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Flower, Sky

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• Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.321

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• All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Rain, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Harvard University Press

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• "In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Leaving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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• In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Nature, Masters

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1900*). “Essays”

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• Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Peace, Men

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• The true poem is the poet's mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Poetry, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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• For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poetry, Argument

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'The Poet'.

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• The finest poetry was first experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poetry, Firsts, Finest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1628, Delphi Classics

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• Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Reform, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1191, Delphi Classics

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• Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Power, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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