Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 163

• It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Effort, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.193

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• I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiving, Homeless, Despondency

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2786, Delphi Classics

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• Every advantage has its tax.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Advantage, Taxes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Ashamed, Our Thoughts

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• Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Identity, Acorns, Fullness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Differences, Force

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• The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Aids, Sympathetic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.321, Columbia University Press

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• The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ears, Singers

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• The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Youth, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Reading, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Bores, Reserves

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.532, Harvard University Press

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• People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Mind, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Air, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.425, Harvard University Press

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• Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Clubs, Produce, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Let It Go

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rags, Creation, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Mind, Mature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Stoic, Christendom

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Curious, Idealism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Art, Tired

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, House, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.286, Harvard University Press

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• No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Criticism, Reviews

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Crowds, Vote

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.449

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• Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Soul, Speak

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

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