Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Cheers

• Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Gratitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.140, Harvard University Press

• The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Cheer, Teaching

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.182

• The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheer, Powerful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.238, Harvard University Press

• Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Cheer, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.93, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

• A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheer, Heart, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

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