Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 153

• The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funeral, Doe, Chiefs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bystanders, Martyr, Torment

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• Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Political, Principles, Fiction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fiction, Preference, Novel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.247, Harvard University Press

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• Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Stealing, Goodness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Iron, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Powerful, Doe

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• The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.98

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• Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Running, Desert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, World, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.43, Penguin

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• When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Ideas, Debtors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• No society can ever be so large as one man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Individual, One Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1526, Delphi Classics

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• We wake from one dream into another dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Illusion, Flakes

  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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• A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tree, Immigration, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Inheritance, Quarrels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Football, Law, Games

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• Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Candle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

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• The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ideas, University

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Two, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4042, Delphi Classics

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• The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Quality, Egyptian

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.965, Library of America

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• The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Bread, Finest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Wrinkles, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.306, Courier Corporation

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• We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3933, Delphi Classics

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• The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Use, Bullets

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.224, Harvard University Press

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• A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Tree, Becoming

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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