Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 92

• Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Busy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414

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• The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Advantage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Power, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

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• The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Money, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.377

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• Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Spiritual, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.322, Modern Library

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• But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Consistency, Trying, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.78, 谷月社

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• To be great, you must be misunderstood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Misunderstood

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• In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Islands

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• I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Adult males are what their moms designed them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mom, Adults, Males

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• Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sarcasm, Men, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2381, Delphi Classics

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• Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, War, Corn

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• But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Champion, Trying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.134, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Innovation, Insightful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.220, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Talent, Sensuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Political

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.525, Рипол Классик

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• Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Imagination, Veils

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Business, Men, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.45, Penguin

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• The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Men, One Direction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.283, University of Georgia Press

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• The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Destiny, Intellectual

  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 key to every man is his thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Keys, Defying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.177, Penguin

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• All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2275, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Persons, Indebted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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• Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Tubs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intemperance, Vulgarity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.92, Harvard University Press

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