Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Devotion

• Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Office, Taste

• In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Deep Life, Deep Thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.71

• The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Giving, Three

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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