Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 63

• Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Heaven, Rejection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1531, Delphi Classics

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• Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Inquiry, Solutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.277

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• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Perspective, Goodness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beautiful, Pain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

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• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Mistake, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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• Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Art, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

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• When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Real, Glasses

  "The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• The never-ending task of self improvement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Self

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• Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dark, Chaos

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Night, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.199, Penguin

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• A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Loss, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.288

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• The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, World, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• All substances the cunning chemist Time
  Melts down into that liquor of my life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Substance, Liquor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.160, The Floating Press

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• Let us leave hurry to slaves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Slave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

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• Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Nature, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1881). “Representative men. Society and solitude”

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• Today is a king in disguise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Kings, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1178, Delphi Classics

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• Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Selfish, Future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.502, Library of America

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• Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Future, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, History, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.270, Penguin

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• The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Facts, Chiefs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1421, Delphi Classics

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• A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2320, Delphi Classics

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• The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sleep, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ambitious, Youth, Courtesy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.406

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