Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 147

• The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Doe, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2683, Delphi Classics

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• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Men, Self

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• Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Next, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.334, Harvard University Press

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• The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mathematical Equations, Balance, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.73, 1st World Publishing

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• The field cannot be seen from within the field.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fields, Seeing

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• Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Grace, Universal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.18, Library of America

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• Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grace, Deeds, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.426, Harvard University Press

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• I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Appetite, Nationalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.174, Penguin

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• Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Omnipotence, Losing

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• The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Genius, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4039, Delphi Classics

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• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romantic Love, Earth, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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• The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Taught, Shallow

  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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• All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Promise, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Respect, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.145, U of Nebraska Press

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• No one suspects the days to be gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Suspects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.188, Harvard University Press

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• He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Goodness, Harbors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.73

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• We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, America, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4089, Delphi Classics

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• All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Historical, Minorities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• There is one mind common to all individual men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Mind, Common

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.3

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• If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Spring, Autumn

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• In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Men, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Vision

  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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• We never touch but at points.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.279, Harvard University Press

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• The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Law, Rope

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Past, Parent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.125, Penguin

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