Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 88

• But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Agriculture, Soil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Rebel, Republic

  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.97, Harvard University Press

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• If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Needs, Waste, Apologizing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.160, Penguin

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• The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Dozen, Pages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

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  Expression, Insane, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

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  Men, Deeds, Letters

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Infancy Is, Paradise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America

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• There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

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  Life, Memorable, Imagination

  "The Conduct of Life".

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• Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

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  Rights, Justice, Diversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.61, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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  Life, Justice, Diversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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• God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

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  Morning, Kings, Tired

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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  Happiness, Success, Laughter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1068, Library of America

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• A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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  Intelligent, Age, Hundred

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

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• The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acceptance, Silence, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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  Growing Up, Believe, Book

  The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)

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• The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

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  Stars, Loneliness, Fall

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• Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

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  Society, Foolish, Young

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• Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

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  Children, Air, Radicalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.334

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• Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, Fossils, Plant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.221, Library of America

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• Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

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  Democracy, Vote, Oppression

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• Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

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  Generosity, Advantage, Superiors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

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  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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  Nature, Lying, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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  Power, Thinking, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.231, Penguin

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• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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  Truth, Power, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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