Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Hate

• I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Clever, Hate, Book

  Journal, May 1849

• I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Hate, Rap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

• Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Book, Beer

• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.278, Harvard University Press

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Anger, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.134, Harvard University Press

• Nature hates calculators.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Hate, Calculators

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press

• A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Soul, Vigor

• You've got to be taught, to hate and fear,
  You've got to be taught, from year to year,
  It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear,
  You've got to be carefully taught.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Years, Littles

• I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Lying, Hate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

• Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Son, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.26, Library of America

• Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Law, Apathy

• This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Hate, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.253, Рипол Классик

• 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”

• If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Men, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

• The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Dwelling, Innovation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.264, Harvard University Press

• A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Hate, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

• I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Hate, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.171

• A system-grinder hates the truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Grinder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.327, Harvard University Press

• The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Men, Apples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

• Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Hate, Monopoly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

• All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Writing, Perfect

  Journal, May 1849

• Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Immortality, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.110, Harvard University Press

• Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Revenge, Hate

• The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, People, Fancy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.75, Coyote Canyon Press

• The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Honor, Deeds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.527, Harvard University Press

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