Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Affairs

• Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Commitment, Focus And Concentration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

• Every man alone is sincere.
  At the entrance of a second person,
  hypocrisy begins.
  We parry and fend the approach
  of our fellow-man by compliments,
  by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
  We cover up our thought from him
  under a hundred folds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gossip, Hypocrisy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

• Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Astrology, Earth

• Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Justice, Affair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.464, Рипол Классик

• The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Views, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, Penguin

• Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Creativity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Рипол Классик

• The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.284, Harvard University Press

• The rhyme of the poet
  Modulates the king's affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Poetry, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.144, The Floating Press

• I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Humanity, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3145, Delphi Classics

• Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Writing, Men

  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.152, Harvard University Press

• Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Perspective, Glimpse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Harvard University Press

• We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.303

• Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hints, Affair, Our Lives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.212, Penguin

• Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Long, Serious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.273

• 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

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