Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 47

• 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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• 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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• Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, Refuse

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• You cannot make a cheap palace.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Palaces, Strategy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Penguin

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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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• Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunday, Civilization, Sabbath

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Egypt, Doors

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• When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Philosophical, Reflection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Mind, Dresses

  "The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Live, let live, and help live

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Kindness, Live Life

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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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• We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Intuition, Tuition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.30

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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Clouds, Fickle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.13

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• Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Anatomy And Physiology, Astrology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

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• Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Angel, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Рипол Классик

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• Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Sacrifice, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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• If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Virtue, Plant

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• The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Soul, Youth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Library of America

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• She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surface, Shows, Fathom

  "The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871".

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