Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 46

• Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glasses, Criminals, Earth

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, World, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Wise, Fate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tongue, Prison, Fame

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

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• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wise, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.140, David R. Godine Publisher

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• My angel,-his name is Freedom,-
  Choose him to be your king;
  He shall cut pathways east and west,
  And fend you with his wing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Freedom, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Character, Native American

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• I like people who can do things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Can Do

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3095, Delphi Classics

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• Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Hands, World

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson, p. 122, March 6, 1995.

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• Every natural action is graceful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Natural

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, North Atlantic Books

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• Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rivers, Looks, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.21, Library of America

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• When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Anger, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Book, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Infinite, Makers, Creative Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

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• A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Progress, Citizens

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Knowledge, Communicate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.29

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• Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hours, Sympathetic, Biographers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.154

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• The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

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• The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Thinking, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is a crack in everything God has made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Cracks, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.62

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• For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Greatness, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Eye

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

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