Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 119

• The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Common Sense, Grace, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

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• Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Iron, Gold

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Wall, Memories

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.68, University of Missouri Press

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• Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Life Is, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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• Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crafts, Politics, States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.557, Library of America

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• And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Devil, London

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• Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Wings, 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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• I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Echoes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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• In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Notebook, Morning, Men

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 384), 1973.

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• Nature abhors the old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Old Age, Growing Old

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.159, Penguin

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• By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity : all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.159, The Floating Press

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• If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Yield, Taxation, Taxes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.46

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• Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Men, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• If the colleges were better, if they had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Order, Rushing

  "The Celebration of Intellect". An Address Delivered Before the Students of Tufts College, quod.lib.umich.edu. July 10, 1861.

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• If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Religious, School

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

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• Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Circles, Soul, Turns

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• Every man is a new method.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Method, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.120, University of Georgia Press

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• I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Size

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Titmouse”

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• A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Hair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.209, Penguin

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• As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Space, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.40, Harvard University Press

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• Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ubiquity, Forever, Independence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ties, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Divorce, Enthusiasm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.263

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• None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Departed

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.85, Penguin

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• A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Mind, Sailor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.13

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