Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 35

• Men in all ways are better than they seem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Way, Appearance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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• We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Greatness, Safety

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.170, Courier Corporation

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• It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Angel, Endurance

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• If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Men, Immortal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Men, Being Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.309, Harvard University Press

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.152

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• We grant no dukedoms to the few,
  We hold like rights and shall;
  Equal on Sunday in the pew,
  On Monday in the mall.
  For what avail the plough or sail,
  Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Monday, Freedom, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Pain, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Responsibility, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.242, Harvard University Press

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• For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Home, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.392

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• Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Reality, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Guidance, Reason

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.357, Harvard University Press

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• If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Higher Ground, Lift Me Up, Lifts

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• Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Evil, Torment

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• Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Secret, Crime

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• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Time, Future

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• The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Selfishness, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Faults, Blame

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2267, Delphi Classics

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• Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235

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• You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Men, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

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• The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Worry, Soul

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• All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Needs, Needed, Fairs

  1839 'Each and All', l.11-12.

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