Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 138

• The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Culture, Checks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.83, Penguin

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• But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

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  Hard Times, Brave, Secret

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

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• No institution will be better than the institutor.

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  Institutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.211

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• I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Institutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.153

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• You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Institutions, Peril, Institute

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.444, Modern Library

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• We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

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  And Love, Use, Ascent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1583, Delphi Classics

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• Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Advice, Doubt

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• The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Behavior, Court, Maxims

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

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  Eye, Giving, Three

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

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  Generosity, Giving, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.239

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• The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

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  Hair, Justice, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

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• The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

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  Tea, Flannels, Slippers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1200, Delphi Classics

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• Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

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  Teaching, Sky, Office

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• We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Pet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.388

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• There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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  Progress, Events, Appearance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

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  Attitude, Reality, Men

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• Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Religious, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364

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• Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

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  Men, Giving, Fabric

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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  Doe, Invention, Inventor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• 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 god- like ease and power.

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  Art, Power, Ease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.518, Harvard University Press

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• Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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  Cities, Want, Found

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.396

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• New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Orange, Personality

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

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• The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

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  Country, Art, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2452, Delphi Classics

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• This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Hate, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.253, Рипол Классик

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