Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 58

• What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Healthy, Preacher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Modern Library

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• Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, May, Soil

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• Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Eye, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.313, Library of America

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• Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Truth, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.755, Harvard University Press

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• Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Snakes, Gliding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• 'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Complaining, Red

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• The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Moon, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Depth, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

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• Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loss, Men, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4418, Delphi Classics

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• The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Losing, Wave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.21, Editora Dracaena

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• There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Habit, Seeking

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• The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law

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• Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Law, Intelligence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Graphic Arts Books

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• A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Use, Mark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.107

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• There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Stressed, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.199

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• If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Sleep, Shows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Penguin

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• We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, People, Judgment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Fighting, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.211, Delphi Classics

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• Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Clock, Adam

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Gratitude, Feelings

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• [Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Cheerfulness

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• He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Magic, Dull

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1460, Delphi Classics

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• But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Causes, Chaos

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Conspiracy, Trifles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.42

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