Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 161

• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Voice

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Good Man, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.501, Рипол Классик

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• My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revenge, Hoe, Lust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Breasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Nature tells every secret once.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nuts, Perfect, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.21, Editora Dracaena

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• The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Looks, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3229, Delphi Classics

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• The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Men, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• The world is his who can see through its pretension.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Deafness, American Scholar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• Tart, cathartic virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Virtue, Cathartic, Tarts

  On Plutarch's Lives, in 'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• The virtue in most request is conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Aversion, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.32

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• It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Journey, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Thoreau”, p.21, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Order, Tunes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.69

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• Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics

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• The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Rose, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.656, Library of America

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• Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Draws

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Voice, Style

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.375, University of Missouri Press

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• The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Squirrels, Nuts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.109, Modern Library

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• This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.89, Penguin

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• Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ordinary, Doe, Murder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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• Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Civilization, Black

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.362

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• The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Adversity, House

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