Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 71

• The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Class, Skulls

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.352

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• I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.3

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• Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  One Day, Actors, Done

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.67, Library of America

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• Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sensual, Bananas

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• How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Mind, Division

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1393, Delphi Classics

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• If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Devil, Ifs

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• Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?

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  Stars, Sunset, Blow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.491

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• Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Two, Genius

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• Literature is eavesdropping.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Literature, Eavesdropping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838-1842”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Going Away, Ashamed, Jokes

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• All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Influence, Natural

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

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• Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Solitude, Cherish

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• The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Variation, Stuff, Form

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.224, Penguin

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• The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

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  Children, Ignorance, Bystanders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creative, Moments

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• If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Individual, One Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.237, Library of America

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• The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Kitchen, Finals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2128, Delphi Classics

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• It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Volunteer, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Missouri Press

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• The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Energy, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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  Brilliant, Has Beens

  Essays, Second Series "The Poet" (1844)

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• What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Sorrow, Feels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Fall, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

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• The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Self, Knowing

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

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• We may be partial, but Fate is not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.463

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• To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Physicians, Amplification

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.389

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