Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 155

• Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Secret, Lows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• Life only avails, not the having lived.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Life Changing, Inspire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.126, Penguin

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• Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Religion, Atheism

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, March 04, 1831.

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• Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Expression, Description

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2580, Delphi Classics

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• Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Political, Individuality

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• If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Diversity, Unity

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• Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Historical, Democracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Historical, Results

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.136, Harvard University Press

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Modern Library

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• Every man is eloquent once in his life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Public Speaking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Irritation, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1030, Library of America

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• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• The House
  
  ...She lays her beams in music,
  In music everyone,
  To the cadence of the whirling world
  Which dances around the sun-
  That so they shall not be displaced
  By lapses or by wars,
  But for the love of happy souls
  Outlive the newest stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Music, Stars

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• A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Tea, Impossible

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2440, Delphi Classics

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• The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Action, Habit

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• It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simplicity, Culture, Matter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

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• Immitation is suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide

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• We walk alone in the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Solitude, World, Walks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.125, Harvard University Press

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• The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Age, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.188, Penguin

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• Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Pain, Curiosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• All the great ages have been ages of belief.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Belief, Has Beens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.430, Рипол Классик

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• Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Statistics, Opinion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Hero, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2316, Delphi Classics

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• Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Average, May

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