Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 106

• When half-gods go
  The gods arrive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Half

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Charity, Philanthropy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Immortality, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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• The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Men, Honest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2610, Delphi Classics

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• Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Speech, Currents

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silence, Shame, Discourse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1387, Delphi Classics

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• Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Night, Numbers, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.180

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• God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Names, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.40, Harvard University Press

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• I am a part and parcel of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Parcel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.30, Penguin

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• Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, And Love, Levity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

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• Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] ed”

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• The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Genius, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.162, Penguin

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• Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stronger, Good Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• The hero is suffered to be himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Heroism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.387

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• There is no history; only biography.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Biographies

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838-1842”, p.202, Harvard University Press

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• In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Air, Taverns, Human Condition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cost, Pay, Fine Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics

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• Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Home, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.271, Penguin

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• Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.336, Harvard University Press

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• Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Space, Heaven, Fortitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.30, North Atlantic Books

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• The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Reason, Crime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.13, Library of America

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• Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Faces, Visitors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Prose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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