Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 129

• The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Mean, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Whales, Creatures

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• All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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  Hate, Writing, Perfect

  Journal, May 1849

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• The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Boys, Healthy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.31

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• The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

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  Good Friend, Delight

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• I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Heart, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Consistency, Mind, Foolish

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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  Distance, Average, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

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  Teaching

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• The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shoes, Example, Needs

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

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  Art, Determination, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.142

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• I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, School, Loss

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2750, Delphi Classics

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• The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

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  Spring, Moving, Communication

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.179

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

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  Football, Organized Life, Four

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• Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

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  Hero, Greek, Gentleman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.376

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• Find the journey's end in every step.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Steps, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.192

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• It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Echoes, Sides

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• Your work should be in praise of what you love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Praise, Should, What You Love

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• The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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  Evil, Vengeance, Wave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1524, Delphi Classics

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• Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin

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• Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

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  Games, Two Sides, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.690, Library of America

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• Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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  Sweet, Evil, Wickedness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.77

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• Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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  Character, House

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• The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Play, House

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ridiculous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Cosimo, Inc.

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