Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 122

• Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

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• The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Solitude, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.398

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• Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Retirement, Solitude, Towns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1028, Library of America

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• The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Solitude, Faces

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

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• But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Solitude, Isolation

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

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• My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Solitude, Solitary

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, Рипол Классик

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• Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Hands, Solitude

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• Think me not unkind and rude
  That I walk alone in grove and glen;
  I go to the god of the wood
  To fetch his word to men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Rude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheer, Powerful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.238, Harvard University Press

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• Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Facts, Novelists

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

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  Exercise, Names, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.404, Рипол Классик

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• Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Literature, Interest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.199

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• The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Land, Long, Independence

  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.52, Harvard University Press

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• Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.390

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• A man should give us a sense of mass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.258

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• The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Sex, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1220, Delphi Classics

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• A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Brain, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.124, Harvard University Press

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• The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  School, Men, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.206

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• The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Friendly, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.479, Рипол Классик

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• The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Book, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.168, Graphic Arts Books

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• The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Live Life, Men, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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• Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Heroic, Cowardice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社

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• The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Degrees, Violence

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

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