Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 149

• For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blessing, Christian Inspirational, Thank God

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• When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Night

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• I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.259, Library of America

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• The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Evil, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Character, Simple

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• In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “Miscellanies, embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.19

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• By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Names, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Harbors, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

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• Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thank You, Lying, Honor

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• Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Two, Enemy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Perfect, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.653, Library of America

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• What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Originality, Accuracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.161

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• I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Pages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thank You, Gratitude, Peace

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• Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greek, Architecture, Geometry

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• Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Gambling, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Greek

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gentleman, Sometimes, Manners

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• The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Animal, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.39, Penguin

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• Quotation confesses inferiority.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inferiority, Quotations

  Letters and Social Aims "Quotation and Originality" (1876)

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• Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Diaries, Graves

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, North Atlantic Books

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• It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Lips, Trembling

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.302, Harvard University Press

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• Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Solitude

  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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• Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Students, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• All the devils respect virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Devil, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.345, Harvard University Press

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