Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 165

• Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Light, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

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• The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, California, Better Days

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.331, Courier Corporation

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• The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Errors, Excess

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.264, Penguin

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• People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Thinking, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (185?). “Nature: An Essay; and Orations”

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• There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Penguin

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• That which builds is better than that which is built.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Built

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Penguin

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• The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Disappointment, Loss, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Discovery, Ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.66

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• Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Giving, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

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• An empire is an immense egotism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Empires, Egotism, Immense

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Miscellanies: embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.364

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• There is no one who does not exaggerate!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exaggeration Is, Doe, Exaggeration

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

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• I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Reason, Deny

  1850 Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

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• The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funeral, Doe, Chiefs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bystanders, Martyr, Torment

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• It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Effort, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.193

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• I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiving, Homeless, Despondency

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2786, Delphi Classics

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• Every advantage has its tax.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Advantage, Taxes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Ashamed, Our Thoughts

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• Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Identity, Acorns, Fullness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Differences, Force

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• The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Aids, Sympathetic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.321, Columbia University Press

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• The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ears, Singers

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• The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Youth, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Reading, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Bores, Reserves

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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