Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 135

• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Grief, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Edifice

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• He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, May, Appreciated

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

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• We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

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  Age, Needs, Young

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.183, Penguin

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• Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

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  Men, Watches, Faces

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

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• Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

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  Beautiful, Unity, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.425, Harvard University Press

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• The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doors, Church, Astronomy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2623, Delphi Classics

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• The lover of letters loves power too.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Letters, Lovers, Power Of Love

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2489, Delphi Classics

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• Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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  Bird, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847). “Poems”, p.179

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• I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

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  Loss, Cities, Suffering

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

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  Cities, May, Taste

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• Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Departure, Commerce

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

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  Hate, Men, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.

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  Hate, Men, Apples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

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• The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

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  Friends, Men, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

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  Men, Self, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.237, Library of America

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• The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

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  Time, Self, Dues

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, Рипол Классик

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• A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

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  Humility, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.122, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

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  Self, World, Mould

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

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• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

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  Hate, Hands, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.536, Library of America

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• My hours are peaceful centuries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Peaceful, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.53

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• Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

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  Running, Horse, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

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  Success, Culture, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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• Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

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  Success, Country, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.123, Penguin

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• Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

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  Success, Humility, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

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