Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 102

• I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Grief, Grieving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.309, Modern Library

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• Hither rolls the storm of heat;
  I feel its finer billows beat
  Like a sea which me infolds;
  Heat with viewless fingers moulds,
  Swells, and mellows, and matures,
  Paints, and flavors, and allures,
  Bird and brier inly warms,
  Still enriches and transforms,
  Gives the reed and lily length,
  Adds to oak and oxen strength,
  Transforming what it doth infold,
  Life out of death, new out of old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Oxen, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.182, Delphi Classics

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• There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Liberty, Prudent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.413, Harvard University Press

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• An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Girl, Education, Teacher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

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• You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, College, Professors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Volcanoes, Eggs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin

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• This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

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  Strong, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Modern Library

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• Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Names, Savages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Intellectual, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Diction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Forever, Verbs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.294, Harvard University Press

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• The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Art, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.155

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• Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Philosophy, Tests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Thinking, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.515, Modern Library

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• I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Hints

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.168, Graphic Arts Books

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• Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Decision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1504, Delphi Classics

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• Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Lying, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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• But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Moving, Roots

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Opinion, Awake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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• The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Plato, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Prudence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.82

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• The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Philosophical, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.25, Editora Dracaena

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• When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Ideas, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.329, Harvard University Press

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