Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 28

• Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

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• There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doe, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.246, Рипол Классик

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• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Theory, Aim

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.2

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• I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Names, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.262, Library of America

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• Language is the archives of history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Historical, Archives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.457, Library of America

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• The hero is he who is immovably centered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero

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• All great men come out of the middle classes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Class, Middle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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• Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, Rocks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.184, University of Missouri Press

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• We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Life Is, Surface

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.96, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Nature, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.361, Рипол Классик

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• The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tragedy, Frugality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moss, Dew, Doctrine

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• The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophical, Men, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Passion, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Long, Belief

  1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Limits, Influence, Being Human

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

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• There are some men above grief and some men below it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Enthusiasm

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• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Hands, Imagine

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• It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Drunk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Hands, Effort

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• Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, People, Inheritance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.269

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• From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, Light, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.57, Coyote Canyon Press

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• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Quality, Pleasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1352, Delphi Classics

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