Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 34

• People say law but they mean wealth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Law, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3911, Delphi Classics

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• Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Over You, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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• The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perfect, People, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• Man's life is a progress, not a station.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Men

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• Character teaches above our wills.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Teach

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

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• All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Taste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Men, Voice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

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• I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Believe, Winter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

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• Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Mistake, Environmental

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Way, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Self, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

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• Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Coffee, Alcohol

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик

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• I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Angel, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures”, p.17

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• The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Selfish, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.207

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• Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.252, Harvard University Press

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• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Antiques, Admiration, Natural

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Vegetarianism, Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blow, Optimism, Shadow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

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• Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Nature, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

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• Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Weather, Savages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.94

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• There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Religion, Occupation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Summer, July

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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