Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 116

• The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Smoking, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.452, Harvard University Press

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• No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Men, Knowing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Limits, Interest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• We put our love where we have put our labor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Effort, Our Love, Work Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Fall, Believe

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• He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Giving Up, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.472, Harvard University Press

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• Genius appeals to the future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Genius, Appeals

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• 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Science, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Teaching, Science

  Nature Discipline (p. 38)

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• The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Use, Able

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.229, Penguin

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• A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophical, Men, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Men, Expression

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• Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.305, University of Georgia Press

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• You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Roots, Progress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Battle, Born

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Inspiration, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Commitment, Giving, Hobbies

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Laugh Often, Enthusiasm

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• The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Light, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• Coal is a portable climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Energy, Climate, Coal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.362

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• The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Native American, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Heart, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies”

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• Necessity does everything well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.265, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Civilization depends on morality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Morality, Depends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• All writing comes by the grace of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Grace, Grace Of God

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.210, Penguin

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