Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 100

• Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Originality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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• Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Twenties, Saint, Four

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Color, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1600, Delphi Classics

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• Earth's a howling wilderness,
  Truculent with fraud and force.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suffering, Earth, Wilderness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.41

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• Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Wickedness, Benefactors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.36, 谷月社

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• I am become a transparent eyeball.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Eyeballs, Transparent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Johnson Woodbury (1970). “Talks with Emerson”

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• Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Spiritual, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

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• A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Woods, Walks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.261, University of Missouri Press

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• I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.54, Penguin

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• The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Portions, True Gifts

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• A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.
  The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Done, Rewards

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• Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• 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

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• The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Running, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

  'Good-bye' (1847)

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• We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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• Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.816, Delphi Classics

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• We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Liberty, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.335, University of Georgia Press

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• The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sweet, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.615, Library of America

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• Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Death, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.97, Penguin

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• Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Challenges, Negative, Cynicism

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• The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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• When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Chasing

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• When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Soul, Flight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.112, Coyote Canyon Press

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