Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 77

• Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rights, Government, Demand

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• The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

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  Constitution, Influence, Degrading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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  Men, Intellectual, Bread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

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• Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

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  Jesus, Soul, Conquer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.25

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• Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

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  Stars, Cutting, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

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  Study, Influence, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

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  Cities, Saint, Tire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.352

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• Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.

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  Real, Inspiration, Intelligent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Graphic Arts Books

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• Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

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  Journey, Perfection, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.484, Library of America

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• Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

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  Nature, Goodness, Good Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.415

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• All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

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  Change, Nature, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Рипол Классик

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• Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

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  Nature, Fear, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.96, 谷月社

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• Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

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  Distance, Believe, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

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  Men, Done, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.749, Library of America

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• The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

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  Men, Ideas, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1183, Delphi Classics

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• The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

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  Men, Self, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.404, Library of America

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• Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

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  Men, Looks, Fleeting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.396

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

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  Complaining, Leprosy, Topics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• To be gret is to be misunderstood.

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  Misunderstood

  "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

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  Strong, Men, Support

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.89

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• I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

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  Men, Facts, Contrast

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• I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

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  Painter, Verses, Conventional

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.259, Library of America

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• Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

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  Success, Congratulations, Risk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Demonology”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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  Acceptance, Heaven, Ships

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

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• Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

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  Inspirational, Hands, People

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