Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 130

• Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, House, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• What potent blood hath modest May.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spring, Blood, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “May-day and Other Pieces”, p.12

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• Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Heaven, Bears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.425

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• If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Atheist, Church, Minutes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Military, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, Graphic Arts Books

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Attitude, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.392

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• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, War, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Pride, Example

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• Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Identity, Analogies, Findings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.45, Modern Library

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• The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Lying, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.7

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• One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Identity

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• Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Discovery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.282, Penguin

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• The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tombstone, Hands, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• So far as a person thinks; they are free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Thinking, Persons

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• I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Limits, Blind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.177

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• A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Night, Men, Insane

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• I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Men, Fiction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• The dearest events are summer-rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Rain, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• Life is a series of surprises.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Anticipation, Surprise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.483, Library of America

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• Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Car, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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• There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Alcohol, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.199, Penguin

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• All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Alcohol, Rare Moments

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• The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beer, Alcohol, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Emotional, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Greatness, Forever

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