Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Heart - Page 3

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Heart, Years

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Eye, Tragedy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3240, Delphi Classics

A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fall, Heart, Thinking

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Wrinkles, Age

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.306, Courier Corporation

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading, Heart, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.127, Harvard University Press

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beautiful, Eye, Heart

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.152

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children, Heart, Eye

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.9, Harvard University Press

The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Sleep, Sublime

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.29, Bantam Classics

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Grief, Heart

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

All men are poets at heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Men, Poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.128, Harvard University Press

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream, Heart, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.125, 谷月社

What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Dust, Excellence

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.560, Penguin

I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sweet, Fall, Heart

'The Problem' (1847)

Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Eye, Sight

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.13, Harvard University Press

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Dream, Heart

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Heart, Destiny

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

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Heart, Eye

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies”

Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wall, Heart, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.399, Library of America

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion, Heart, Sleep

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.156

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Heart, Burden

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003). “Nature and Other Writings”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity, Heart, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.258

Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Science, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.57, Penguin

Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Heart, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Believe, Heart

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.416, Harvard University Press