Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 115

• He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

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• The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

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• Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Race, Organization

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.213, Read Books Ltd

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• The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Our World, Done

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Inspiration, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1299, Delphi Classics

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• If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Doe, Mixtures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.86, Penguin

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• All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Moral, All Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, Looks, Sanctuary

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.19, Penguin

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• An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Space, Liberty, Individualism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library

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• All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Facts, Individualism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.10

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• All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Рипол Классик

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• The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gentleman, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

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• The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Government, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.531, Рипол Классик

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• We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Errors, Discovery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Men, Enemy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.72, Penguin

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• Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Kind, Individualism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.480

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• In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daily Life, Individualism, Used

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Morning, Spring

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• The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Majority, Hearing

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• If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Knowing, Bragging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Levels, Tongue, Wit And Humor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Demand, Ability

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.49, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The dice of God are always loaded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Luck, Dice

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Compensation'.

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• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.432

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• Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greed, Giants, Growing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.377

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