Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 27

• A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Hero, Men

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happy Friday, Men, Advice

  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.238, Harvard University Press

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• Knowledge is the antidote to fear,-
  Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Use, Reason

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• A little integrity is better than any career.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Careers, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.233, University of Missouri Press

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• Character is that which can do without success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Character, Humility

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• A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.396

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• When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Men, Causes

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• Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Self, Prudent

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• When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Ignorance, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.55

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• Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Spring, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1279, Delphi Classics

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• The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Real, People

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• Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Justice, Affair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.464, Рипол Классик

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• We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• Obedience alone gives the right to command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Giving, Obedience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.298, University of Georgia Press

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• There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Rooms, Force

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• All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Naps, Life Is

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• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Cynical, Haste

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• Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sight, Genius, Consistent

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• The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Рипол Классик

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• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

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• When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Heart, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

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• Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Doe, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.4, Coyote Canyon Press

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• For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wit, Grain, Folly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.287, Library of America

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• The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Stars, Boys

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

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