Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 53

• Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Transcendentalism, Saddles, Mankind

  "Ode Inscribed toW. H. Channing" l. 50 (1847)

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• He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Philosophy, Party

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1400, Delphi Classics

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• When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Senior, Autumn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.354, Harvard University Press

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• All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Reform, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.57, Coyote Canyon Press

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• A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.468

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• He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Determination, Power, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Play, Conversation, Feels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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• Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mean, Fancy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

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• Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Power, Balance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.28

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• The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Heaven, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.429

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• The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Genius, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

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• Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Law

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• In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Civilization, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.143

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• The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Evil, Lessons

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• It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Past, New Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.122, Penguin

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• Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Men, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Nature, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Light, Ebb And Flow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.137, Penguin

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• The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Immortality, Blazing, Evidence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Beast, Descending

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

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• A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Soul, Vigor

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• Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Helping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.37

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• Society does not love its unmaskers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Society, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.506, Harvard University Press

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• Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sky, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.418

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• I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Lying, Hate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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