Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 46

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Beautiful, Money

  Essays, Second Series "Nominalist and Realist" (1844)

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• There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Health, Exercise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

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• The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Navy, Nations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.22, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Order, Age, Ministry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834”

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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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• Invention breeds invention.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Innovation, Invention

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, University of Georgia Press

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• The house praises the carpenter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Achievement, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Educational

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Modern Library

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• The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Nature, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.56, Penguin

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