Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 166

• Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.532, Harvard University Press

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• Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Unique

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.39

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• Genius is intellect constructive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Intellect, Constructive

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• There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Poetry, Humanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Expression, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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• The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Pride, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin

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• But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Sunset, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.452, Modern Library

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• The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intuition, Lasts, Facts

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• Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,
  Severing rightly his from thine,
  Which is human, which divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Lines, Divine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.185, Graphic Arts Books

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• Music and Wine are one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Wine, Musician

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.71, U of Nebraska Press

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• In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Color, Snakes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Two touch the string,
  The harp is dumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Two, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.152, The Floating Press

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• Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Book, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.159, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Book, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.366, Harvard University Press

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• The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;
  Shall sorrow put my books away?
  Thereby are two days lost.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Rain, Loss

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.116, Harvard University Press

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• The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Men, Apples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

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• Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Men, Illustration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1396, Delphi Classics

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• Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Book, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Skating, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Genius, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.194, Рипол Классик

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• In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Knowledge, Temples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Knowledge, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Knowledge, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Issues, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Order, Unity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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