Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 48

• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Children, Attitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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• Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Poetry, Silence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2415, Delphi Classics

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• It is one soul which animates all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Beams Of Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.502

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• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• All mankind love a lover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Romance

  Essays "Love" (1841)

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Grace, Bait

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.278, Harvard University Press

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Believe, Men

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

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• Power and speed be hands and feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Gnarly, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Boys, Giving, Accomplishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.406, Рипол Классик

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• People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Hope, Self Esteem

  'Essays' (1841) 'Circles'

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• There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Perfect, Cooking

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• My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Smell, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.304, Penguin

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• To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Wish, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.239, Harvard University Press

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• Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Book, Beer

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• Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cutting, Alive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• The surest poison is time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Poison, Time Management

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик

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• God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Godly, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3017, Delphi Classics

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