Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 104

• That you are fair or wise is vain,
  Or strong, or rich, or generous;
  You must have also the untaught strain
  That sheds beauty on the rose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Beauty, Wise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.193, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Sunset, Vision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.242, Modern Library

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• Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Knowledge, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.38, Penguin

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• Thy dangerous glances
  make women of men;
  new-born, we are melting
  into nature again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Melting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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• For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, God

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.202, Harvard University Press

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• We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.290

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• It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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  Beauty, Men, Rose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

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• The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Lying, Thoughtful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.276, Modern Library

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• By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Agreement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (189?). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Craze

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.311, Penguin

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• And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

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  Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Penguin

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• What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Our thinking is a pious reception.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Reception

  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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• How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.637, Modern Library

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• In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Successful, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2474, Delphi Classics

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• My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Sex, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Friends, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.96

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• The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

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  Friendship, Trust, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.70, 谷月社

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• I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Pride, Accomplishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Dream, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Law, Games

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.65, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Friends, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”

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