Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 93

• Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Speech, Power Of Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

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• The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Men, Ejaculation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.463, Library of America

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• I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Class, Tragedy

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• If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Balance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.63, Xist Publishing

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• I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Vices

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• Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Commitment, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

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• Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Player, Soldier, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.233, Modern Library

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• I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Aversion, Taste, Companion

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

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• Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Two, Twists

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Strength, Best Husband

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• The people are to be taken in very small doses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, People, Public Speaking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.285, Penguin

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• The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunshine, Fire, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.699, Modern Library

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• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Selfish, People

  'The Conduct of Life' (1860) 'Considerations by the way'

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• Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

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• A little praise goes a great ways.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Appreciation, Littles, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.198, Harvard University Press

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• A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Firsts, Courtesy, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.330, Library of America

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, One Direction

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• Art is the path of the creator to his work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Path

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.466, Library of America

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• Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Mistake, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Practice, Astonishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.95

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• Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Nature, Wells

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