Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 110

• Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heroism, Lasts, Prudent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Looks, Youth

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• Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Justice

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

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• Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Years, Gold

  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.58, Harvard University Press

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• a good reader makes a good book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Good Book, Reader

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• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Genius, University

  English Traits "Universities" (1856)

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• The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faces, Cliffs, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.115, Harvard University Press

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• Nature ever faithful is
  To such as trust her faithfulness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Faithful, Faithfulness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Certain, Situation, Ifs

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• A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Soul, World

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• There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Ignorance, Men

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Real, Men

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• All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Men, Sometimes

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• Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inward, Action, Appearance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

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• Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Coward, Finals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Special, Society, Together

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.487, Рипол Классик

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• Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Long, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2744, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Feds, Faculty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.231

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• The soul knows no persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Persons, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Style, Window

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• 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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