Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 57

• The virtue of books is to be readable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Harvard University Press

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• Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, House, Shelter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1341, Delphi Classics

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• We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Mean, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• Music causes us to think eloquently.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Thinking, Causes

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• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Beer, Self Reliance

  Journal (1867)

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• A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Motivation, Men

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• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Kindness, Deals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.341, Library of America

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• In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, North Atlantic Books

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• The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Power, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Penguin

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• Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Wall, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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• I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Energy, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.266, Harvard University Press

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• Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Dew, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.384, Penguin

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• In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Order, Benefits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• Genius is power, talent is applicability.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.136, University of Missouri Press

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• In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Europe, America, Curiosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.32, Library of America

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• A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Men, Brave

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• A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Feet, Clothes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press

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• The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Real, Men

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• Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.371

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• Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Jewelry, Moments

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• Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Skepticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.89, Harvard University Press

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• Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Action, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.53, Penguin

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• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adventure, Understanding, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.208

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• Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Historical, Doubtful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2611, Delphi Classics

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• What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Bricks, Divine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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