Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 84

• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Giving, Opinion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.536, Library of America

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• It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Doe, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.199, Courier Corporation

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• If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.666, Modern Library

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• The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.131, Penguin

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• Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Joy, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.116, Coyote Canyon Press

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• There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Past, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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• We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiving, Praise, Thirst

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.378, Рипол Классик

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• There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Lying, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.207

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• I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Village, Shallow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.6, Library of America

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• Men consort in camp and town
  But the poet dwells alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Poetry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.152, The Floating Press

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• The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.162

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• The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Children, Doctors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays - First Series”, p.274, The Floating Press

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• To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.386, Modern Library

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• We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

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• Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.171, Penguin

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• There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Loss, Infancy Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Believe, Son

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.381, Modern Library

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• Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Faith, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

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• Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Men, Animal

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

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• There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

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• Travel is a fools paradise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Tourism, Paradise

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• It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Distance, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.391, Modern Library

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• Reality is a sliding door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Doors, Sliding Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.80, Harvard University Press

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