Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Eating

• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Food, Eating Good

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

• What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Tasks

• Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Drinking, Saint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.91, Courier Corporation

• The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Waiting, Eating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.540, Рипол Классик

• I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, Bread, Arsenic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

• What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Drinking, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.86, Jazzybee Verlag

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