Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 79

• Build therefore your own world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Integrity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Persons, Loses

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• The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

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• Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Water, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sky, Giving, Mountain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin

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• Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Men, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Fortune

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Violence, Absence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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• The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Views, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, Penguin

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• What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Justice

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• The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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• It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Art, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.158

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• Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Blood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.257, Harvard University Press

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• I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, School, Knowledge

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• Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Men, Vices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Saint, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.349, Рипол Классик

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• Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Sculpture, Celebration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Culture opens the sense of beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.37

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• Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Let Him Go, Carrie

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

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• Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Degrees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

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• We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.144

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• The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Columbia University Press

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• Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Personality, Gentleman

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