Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 117

• The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Excess

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.447, Рипол Классик

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• Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, White Man, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.458, Harvard University Press

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• A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sky, Poet, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Friendly, Beast

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.359, Harvard University Press

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• When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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• A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Great Men, Scholarship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Ego, Scholarship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.258, Harvard University Press

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• What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.277, Penguin

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• After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Brain, Tunes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.261, Harvard University Press

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• It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fighting, Ignorant, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2972, Delphi Classics

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• Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Long, Company

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.18

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• A nation never falls but by suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Fall, Nations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Individual, Universal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Lectures and Orations”, p.353

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• I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Loyal, Forests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

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• The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crafts, Merchants

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.344

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• The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Latin, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anticipation, Argument, Anticipate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Virtue, Flowering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.95, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Bird, Verbs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.794, Harvard University Press

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• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Eye, Greatness

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• A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Compassion, Church

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cities, Clothes

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• We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Passion, Comedian

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.91

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• The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Inspiration, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2507, Delphi Classics

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• Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Art, Echoes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.195, The Floating Press

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