Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 143

• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "Society and Solitude". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Success", 1870.

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• Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moderation, Moderation In All Things, All Things

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• There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Block, Men, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Ambition, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2800, Delphi Classics

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• God will not make himself manifest to cowards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Coward, Manifest, Gods Will

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

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• Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Secret, Who We Are

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Friends, Self

  "Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Jewels, Portions

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Opposites

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays: First Series”, p.105, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Doing well is a result of doing good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doing Good, Results, Wells

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• The life of truth is cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cold, Truth Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.490, Library of America

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• The sun shines today also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shining, Today, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Writing, Wrens

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Art'.

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• Life is to be lived, not controlled.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life Is, Controlled

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• Never read any book that is not a year old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Reading Books

  "Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters".

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• Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Soul, Cheerful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.42, Coyote Canyon Press

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• So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Dust, Youth

  'Voluntaries' no. 3 (1867)

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• Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, May, Accepting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.79, Penguin

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• The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Simple, Essentials

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Reality, Greek

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.52, 谷月社

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• Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Solitude

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• Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Inspire, Used

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Howell Foster (1939). “Emerson's theory of poetry”

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• Imitation cannot go above its model.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imitation, Models

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.143, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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