Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 59

• We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Quality, Paint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

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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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• The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Causes, Sentences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Zodiac, Rainbow, Brave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.423, Harvard University Press

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• Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Interviews, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Europe, America

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• A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

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  Eye, Men, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

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• Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Dimensions, Infinite

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.42

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• Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Vocation, Persons

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• Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Science, Brave

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• Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Looks, Poetry Is

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