Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Glory

• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Family, Trust

• Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Nature, Glory

• If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Age, Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.73, Penguin

• The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

• The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, World, Divinity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Stars, Lying

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.163, Read Books Ltd

• Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

• And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Character, Dark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

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