Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 162

• Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Weather, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.25, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  News, Acceptable

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• The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Late, Gates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

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• Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sculpture, Awful, Vain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1925*). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in One Volume”

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• If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Thinking, Red

  'Brahma' (1867)

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• We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Uneasy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.154

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• Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Air, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.161, Penguin

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• I honor health as the first Muse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Honor, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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• The highest Beauty should be plain set.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Should, Highest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Travel, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

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• We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Passion, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.51, Penguin

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• Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Sometimes, Whole

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• Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Eye, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.285, Harvard University Press

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• Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nuts, Cracks, Forests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.454, Penguin

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• Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sailing, Nautical, Vexation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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• It is time to be old
  To take in sail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sailing, Sail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.249, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Sports, Way

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• There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Squirrels, Glasses, Snow

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Virtue, Mark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.38, Penguin

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• Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Home, Strange

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2117, Delphi Classics

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• I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Wish, Rhyme

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.219, Harvard University Press

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• Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Return, Action, Fit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Degenerates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Art, Character

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Sight, Agreement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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