Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 164

• We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Past, Wrath

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• There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

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  Squirrels, Glasses, Snow

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Virtue, Mark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.38, Penguin

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• Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Home, Strange

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2117, Delphi Classics

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• I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Wish, Rhyme

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.219, Harvard University Press

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• Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

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  Return, Action, Fit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

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  Thinking, Men, Degenerates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

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  Beautiful, Art, Character

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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  Distance, Sight, Agreement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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  Men, Exaggeration Is, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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  Manners, Exaggeration, Exaggerating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

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  Men, Exaggeration Is, Generosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

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  Health, Exercise, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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• Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Hypocrisy, Curious

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• [A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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  Life, Hands, Storm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2650, Delphi Classics

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• With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Men, Yesterday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.273, Рипол Классик

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• Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

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  Wise, Fate, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

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  Summer, Sweet, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2657, Delphi Classics

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• Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

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  Nature, Morning, Wrinkles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

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  Art, Chinese, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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• Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

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  Tired, Adventure, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Statistics, Fagots, Bandages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.259, Penguin

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• Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Debt, Pay

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• A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• When a man meets his make, society begins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Society

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