Top 25 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson of 4214 - Page 55

Our best history is still poetry.

History, Best History, Stills

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect, Moving, Compassion

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate, Destiny, Fire

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.87, Penguin

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual, Hands, Firsts

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual, Lying, Infinite

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strong, Powerful, Simple

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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Moving, Medicine, Criminals

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Commitment, Ideas, Discipline

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

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Home, Ideas, Shapes

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2431, Delphi Classics

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

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Life, Eye, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.319, Library of America

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Im Sorry, Public Opinion, I Am Sorry

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Life And Love, Today

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Valentines Day, Eye, Love Is

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

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Children, Father, Enjoy Life

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

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Men, Intelligence, Definitions

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2459, Delphi Classics

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Lines, Reader

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

The language of the street is always strong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strong, Writing, Language

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.22, University of Georgia Press

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Growing, Horns

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.376, University of Missouri Press

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Conceited, May

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.243, Harvard University Press

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

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Attitude, Positive Attitude, Cheerfulness

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

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Beauty, Death, Bread

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Graphic Arts Books

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Book, Use

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

Pride ruined the angels.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Angel, Pride, Ruined

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.382, Bantam Classics

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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Tree, Environment, Ends

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.73, Harvard University Press

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

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Philosophy, Lying, Justice

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Penguin