Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 162

• What potent blood hath modest May.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spring, Blood, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “May-day and Other Pieces”, p.12

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• Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Heaven, Bears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.425

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• If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Atheist, Church, Minutes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Grace, Universal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.18, Library of America

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• Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grace, Deeds, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.426, Harvard University Press

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• I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Appetite, Nationalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.174, Penguin

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• Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Omnipotence, Losing

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• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romantic Love, Earth, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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• The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Taught, Shallow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Promise, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Respect, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.145, U of Nebraska Press

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• If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Diversity, Unity

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• Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Historical, Democracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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  Mean, Historical, Results

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.136, Harvard University Press

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

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  Running, Writing, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Modern Library

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• Every man is eloquent once in his life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Public Speaking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Irritation, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1030, Library of America

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• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• The House
  
  ...She lays her beams in music,
  In music everyone,
  To the cadence of the whirling world
  Which dances around the sun-
  That so they shall not be displaced
  By lapses or by wars,
  But for the love of happy souls
  Outlive the newest stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Music, Stars

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• A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Tea, Impossible

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2440, Delphi Classics

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• The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

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  Self, Action, Habit

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• It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simplicity, Culture, Matter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

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• Immitation is suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide

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• We walk alone in the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Solitude, World, Walks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.125, Harvard University Press

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• The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Age, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.188, Penguin

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