Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 133

• The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Painting, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
  Then beauty is its own excuse for being:
  Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
  I never sought to ask, I never knew:
  But, in my simple ignorance suppose
  The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Ignorance, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Rhodora”

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• The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Miracle, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• Far or forgot to me is near;
  Shadow and sunlight are the same;
  The vanished gods to me appear;
  And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;
  When me they fly, I am the wings;
  I am the doubter and the doubt,
  And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Wings, Hymns

  'Brahma' (1867)

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• The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Design, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.243, Bantam Classics

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• O friend, my bosom said,
  Through thee alone the sky is arched.
  Through thee the rose is red;
  All things through thee take nobler form,
  And look beyond the earth,
  The mill-round of our fate appears
  A sun-path in thy worth.
  Me too thy nobleness has taught
  To master my despair;
  The fountains of my hidden life
  Are through thy friendship fair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Fate, Sky

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.248, Modern Library

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• A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Jail, Self

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• Though thou loved her as thyself,
  As a self of purer clay,
  Tho' her parting dims the day,
  Stealing grace from all alive,
  Heartily know,
  When half-gods go,
  The gods arrive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Self, Grace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “An Emerson Calendar”

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• Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
  Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Wise, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.479, Library of America

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• Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.214, Broadview Press

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• We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Praise, Results

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.232, Harvard University Press

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• The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Doe, Tongue

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• Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sight, Social Taboos, Mules

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• Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Years, Stronger

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• Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Boys, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.446, Penguin

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• The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Affirmative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2522, Delphi Classics

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• Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligence, Intellect, Comparison

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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• The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doors, Growth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.390, Рипол Классик

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• Tis good-will makes intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligence, Intellect, Good Will

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.107, Everyman's Library

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• London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, London, Epitome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.364, Penguin

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• To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Luck, Skepticism

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• No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Doe, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.261, Penguin

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• As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Neurosis, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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• God is Unity, but always works in variety.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Oneness, Unity, Variety

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.177, Harvard University Press

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• Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Differences, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Рипол Классик

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