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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• 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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• All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Improvement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.279, Library of America

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• We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Idols, History, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.210

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• Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, People, Mind

  "Representative Men". Uses of Great Men. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1850.

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• The walking of Man is falling forwards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Men, Progress

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• He is great who confers the most benefits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Benefits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.35, Penguin

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• The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Letting Go, Yankees, Teeth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4019, Delphi Classics

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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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• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Food, Eating Good

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

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• The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Knowing, Dimes

  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.236, Harvard University Press

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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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• A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Baby, Children

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• One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Differences, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.234, Рипол Классик

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• For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Air, Poetry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.187, Penguin

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• Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Book, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.134, 谷月社

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• If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Purpose, Sovereign

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Unique, Medicine, Battle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.24

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• We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Change, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Men, Pigs

  Journal, Feb. 1855

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

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• Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Courage, Money

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.332, Harvard University Press

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