Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Sunday

• We grant no dukedoms to the few,
  We hold like rights and shall;
  Equal on Sunday in the pew,
  On Monday in the mall.
  For what avail the plough or sail,
  Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Monday, Freedom, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

• I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man; she is immensely rich, he is welcome to her entire goods, which he speaks no word, only leaves over doors ajar, hall, store room, & cellar. He may do as he will: if he takes her hint & uses her goods, she speaks no word; if he blunders & starves, she says nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Sunday

• Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunday, Civilization, Sabbath

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

• Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, School, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.307, Library of America

• Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, School, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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