Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Compromise

• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, I Miss You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

• Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Compromise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

• If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Eye, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

• For everything you gain, you lose something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Рипол Классик

• Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Flower, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

• God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Knowledge, Compromise

  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.29, Harvard University Press

• The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Work, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.238

• In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talking, America, Listening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.215, Penguin

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