Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 75

• Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Conscience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Individual, Riddle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2254, Delphi Classics

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• Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Judging, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1102, Library of America

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• If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Years, Nobody Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.106, University of Georgia Press

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• A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Laughing, Faults

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.115, Harvard University Press

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• Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sleep

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• Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fancy, Riches, Poor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1487, Delphi Classics

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• Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Portraits, Currency, Stamps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Self, Foreigners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.156, Penguin

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• No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Covenant, Higher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

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• The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  His Love, Lovers, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Harvard University Press

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• We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Yesterday, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.233, University of Georgia Press

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• God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Gods Will, Theatrical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.374, Harvard University Press

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• We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Wish, Might

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Tragedy, Vices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.98, Harvard University Press

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• A forte always makes a foible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Forte, Foibles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• You can take better care of your secret than another can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Care

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Criticism, Lines

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

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• There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Needs, Handle

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• If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Long, Attention

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.269, Modern Library

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• The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Theology, Discourse, Subjects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.305, Harvard University Press

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• I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Stars, Lying

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.163, Read Books Ltd

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• The order of things consents to virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Order, Virtue, Consent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (1989). “The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.31, University of Missouri Press

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• A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Women, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1107, Library of America

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