Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 139

• Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

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  Kindness, Evil, Benefits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

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  Mother, Father, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.320

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• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

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  Romantic, Envy, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

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  Men, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.405

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• I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

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  Respect, Distance, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

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  Men, Space, Leaving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.222

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• A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

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  Men, Quality, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.233

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• It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

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  Space, Mind, Dignity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

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  Men, Wanted, Every Man

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Nominalist and Realist'

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• Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

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  Thinking, Land, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

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  Virtue, Excellent, Capacity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

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• The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

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  Silence, Return, Degrees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

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  Girl, School, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.186, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

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  Sacrifice, Years, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.301

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• Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

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  Country, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.215, Library of America

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• A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

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  Shopping, Needs, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104

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• I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

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  Men, Way, Another Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Рипол Классик

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• A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

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  Journey, Healthy, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.195, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Wise, Brother

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.459

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• Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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  Men, Tyrants, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.542, Рипол Классик

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• For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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  Causes, Influence, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Columbia University Press

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• Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Numbers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.283, Graphic Arts Books

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• Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

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  Fashion, Men, Honor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.90, 谷月社

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• The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

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  Philosophy, Blessed, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

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  Reform, Reformation, Heels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays; with preface by Thomas Carlyle”, p.29

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