Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 87

• There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Courage, Believe

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• We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Mindfulness, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Inspiration, Greatness

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hypocrite, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.144, Library of America

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• It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debt, World, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.109, 1st World Publishing

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• There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Fashion, Clothes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Library, Paper

  "Society and Solitude and Other Essays".

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• Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fate, Intelligent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.23

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• A man is related to all nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Nature, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.24, 谷月社

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• Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Want, What You Want

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• When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Money, Taken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honor, Causes, Fortune

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is never too late to do right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Columbia University Press

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• When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Savages, Desert

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• For, whom the Muses smile upon,
  And touch with soft persuasion,
  His words like a storm-wind can bring
  Terror and beauty on their wing;
  In his every syllable
  Lurketh nature veritable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wind, Wings, Poetry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's a luxury to be understood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Luxury, Understood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1826-1832”

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• I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Events, Moments, Higher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.5, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Becoming, Worship

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• Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Nature, Religion

  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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• Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Religion, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.21

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• Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Atheist, Men, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2204, Delphi Classics

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• Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Brother, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.34, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sight, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.194

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• Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Europe, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.510

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• When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Arriving, Noble

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.165

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