Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Sympathy

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

• Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Atmosphere, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

• The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Secret, Secret Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.87

• One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Stars, Wall

• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Sadness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

• Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Hands, Solitude

• In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Nature, Fishing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

• When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Wise, Brother

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.459

• The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Education, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press

• A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

• We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Men, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, Рипол Классик

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