Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 44

• Beauty without expression is boring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Makeup, Greatness, Expression

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• A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gentleman, Noise, Quiet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Motor Racing, Car

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• In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Eight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Poor

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'Poetry and Imagination'.

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• Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Equality, Problem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• There is properly no history, only biography.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny Life, History, Historical

  Essays "History" (1841)

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• Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Vision, World

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• Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Mean, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Success, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.656, Modern Library

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• We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Beautiful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.470

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• The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Joy, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.257, Рипол Классик

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• There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Tendencies

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• The greatest man in history was the poorest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, History, Historical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2442, Delphi Classics

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• Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Healing, Practice, Criticism

  Essays (Second series) 'Nominalist and Realist'

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• We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Nature, Asylums

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Would Be, Duration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

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• Genius Borrows nobly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Plagiarism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.154

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• The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Business, Men, Hug

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.812, Modern Library

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• Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.73, Harvard University Press

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• All high beauty has a moral element in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Elements, Moral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.107

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• We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Communication, Space

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• The poem is a confession of faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confession

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• Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Personality, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Religion, Withdrawal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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