Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 54

• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Gratitude, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

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• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Selfish, Umpires

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

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• Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Aptitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

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• Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Would Be, Politics, Sincere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Рипол Классик

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• And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.83, Penguin

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• Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sex, Notable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.386

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• A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Intellectual, Degrees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Exercise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2741, Delphi Classics

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• Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Learning, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doors, Heaven, Earth

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• There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Hands, Share

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2464, Delphi Classics

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• A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Creation, Magnificent

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

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• I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that youshould. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust thatwhat is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moonwhatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, Iwill love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself byhypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truthwith me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Love You, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.128, Penguin

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  In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Men, Morning Inspirational

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.384, Harvard University Press

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• It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Ties

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.425, Harvard University Press

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• Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Suffering, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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• Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Looks, Wonderful, Can Do

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Blood, Politics

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• Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Ladders, Littles

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• All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tools, Earth

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• Calmness is always godlike.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Calm, Calmness, Godlike

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.530, Harvard University Press

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• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Men, Vegetables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

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