Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 126

• For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

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  Government, House, Brave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Essays”

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• But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

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  Compassion, Lovely, Degrading

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• The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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  Race, World, Mixtures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.22

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• Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

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  Fashion, Children, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Рипол Классик

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• Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

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  Wise, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.409

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• There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

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  Grace, World, Mercury

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.86, 谷月社

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• How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

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  Garden, Land, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.200, Рипол Классик

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• The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

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  Dew, World, Globes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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  World, Microcosm, Particles

  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.27, Harvard University Press

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• Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

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  Eye, Cities, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.542, Library of America

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• Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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  Hands, Pay, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.17

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• The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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  Luck, Genius, Fortune

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.216

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• Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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  Intelligent, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.387

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• A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

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  Cousin, Uncles, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.350, Library of America

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• Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

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  Conversation, Relation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.122

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• In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

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  Men, Islands, Talking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.522, Library of America

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• He only is rich who owns the day.

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  Independence, Rich

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.150

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• Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

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  Lying, Simplicity, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.135

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• Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

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  Simple, Air, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Graphic Arts Books

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• The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

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  Sleep, Waiting, Eating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.540, Рипол Классик

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• Our moods do not believe in each other.

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  Believe, Mood, Vacuity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

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  Confidence, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1469, Delphi Classics

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• But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

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  Cities, Giving, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

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  Years, Guests, Dinner

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• Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
  squandering your unquoted mirth,
  which keeps the ground, and never soars,
  while jake retorts, and reuben roars;
  tough and screaming, as birch-bark,
  goes like bullet to its mark;
  while the solid curse and jeer
  never balk the waiting ear.

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  Rude, Waiting, Jake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847). “Poems”, p.103

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