Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 150

• Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Oracles, Said

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• Great men exist that there might be greater men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Might, Great Men

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• The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Reform, Obsolete

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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• Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Heaven, Fruit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.657, Modern Library

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• To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Numbers, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.177, Penguin

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• The world is all outside, it has no inside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.236, Harvard University Press

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• The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Teach, Courses

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• Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Reality, Depth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.385, Library of America

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• Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Thinking, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.97

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• Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Heaven, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.258, Harvard University Press

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• The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.234, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Power is the first good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Firsts

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• The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, One Direction, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.283, University of Georgia Press

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• This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, World, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• God hides things by putting them near us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.198, Harvard University Press

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• The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Land, Mind, Culture

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• When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Church, Santa

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Genius, Compass

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• Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Too Much, Dare, Duty

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• I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Victory, Defeated, Born

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.228, Harvard University Press

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• Whatever you do, you need courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Decide Upon, Criticism

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• Society has no bribe for me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bribe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.60, Harvard University Press

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• The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Height, Determined, Pinnacle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.310, Library of America

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• Meek young men grow up in libraries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Growing Up, Men, Library

  The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)

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