Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 51

• I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Suffering, Tribes

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 205), March 6, 1995.

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• Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

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  Beauty, Balance, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

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• Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

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  Love, Romantic, Girlfriend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.144, Penguin

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• Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Pain, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, University of Virginia Press

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• As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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  Prayer, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.276, Library of America

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• Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

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  Beauty, God, Bystanders

  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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• The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

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  Soul, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.502, Columbia University Press

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• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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  Nature, Men, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

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• That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

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  Libertarian, Spirituality, Sin

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.488, Library of America

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• Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

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  Tea Drinking, People, Tea Party

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

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• Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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  Nature, Holiday, Nymphs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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  Dream, Past, Doe

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• Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Nature

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• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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  Character, Levels, Welcome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2602, Delphi Classics

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• The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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  Soul, Self Reliance, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.28, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

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  Men, One Direction, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.283, University of Georgia Press

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• Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

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  Sleep, Waking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

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  Effort, Bird, Cost

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.163, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

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  Rain, Character, Bridges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.488

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• The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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  Running, Art, Men

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• An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

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  Book, Character, Mean

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• I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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  Thinking, Slavery, Slave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

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  Drinking, Giving, Feelings

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• Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

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  Motivational, Men, Law

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• It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

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  Suffering, Injustice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.349

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