Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Hurt

• All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Garden, Spades

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.157, Cosimo, Inc.

• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Integrity, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

• If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Hero, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.774, Modern Library

• Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Truth, Ruins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

• It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Hurt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

• I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that youshould. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust thatwhat is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moonwhatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, Iwill love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself byhypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truthwith me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Love You, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.128, Penguin

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