Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Glitter

• He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Hands, Bayonets

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1919). “The Conduct of Life: Nature and Other Essays”

• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

• He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Heart, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies”

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