Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 61

• I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Men, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Destiny, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.79, Penguin

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• As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Empires, Economy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.122, Jazzybee Verlag

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• England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Children, Islands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Heart, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Modern Library

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• No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

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  Education, Country, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dark, Power, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.50, 谷月社

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• He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

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  Sorry, Men, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.501, Рипол Классик

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• The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Facts, Christ

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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  Character, America, Clouds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.96, Library of America

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• The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

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  Faith, Hope, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.245

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• We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

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  Song, Law, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.527, Рипол Классик

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• We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Common

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

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• In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Serenity, Age, Behavior

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.292

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• The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

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  Law, Games, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Together, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Degrees, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intuition, Logic, Moments

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

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• Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doctors, Despair, Physicians

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.469

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• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Astronomy, Certain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

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  Religious, Simple, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Cities, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

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  Blood, Europe, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1476, Delphi Classics

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• Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Growth, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.69, Penguin

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