Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 86

• Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Moments, Nature Beauty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.16

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• If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, War, Democracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

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• In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Profound, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.260, Harvard University Press

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• I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anniversary, Love Is, Heard

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4327, Delphi Classics

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• The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, Evil, Wickedness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.347

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• Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

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• Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Years, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Hero, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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• A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Creativity, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “English Traits”, p.178

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• Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discovery, America, Ships

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.211, Penguin

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• Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Integrity, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Religion, Authority

  'Essays' (1841) 'The Over-Soul'

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• Man is a piece of the universe made alive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Pieces, Alive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.322, Harvard University Press

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• Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Wall, Awakening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1409, Delphi Classics

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• We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Destiny, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with annotations edited by Edward Waldo Emerson, and Waldo Emerson Forbes”, p.78, Рипол Классик

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• Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Strong, Eye

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• Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Winter, Autumn, Voice

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• Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Heirlooms, Forests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin

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• Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Courage, Scum

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• The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Looks, Landscape

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• You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.127, Penguin

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Learning, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Congratulations, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.401

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• Be an opener of doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Opportunity, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Baby, Witty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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