Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 164

• Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Blessing, Odes

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• The true ship is the ship builder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ships, Builder

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

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• I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Community, Slavery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2995, Delphi Classics

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• The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Poet, Credentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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• Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Waking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Constitution, Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1276, Delphi Classics

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• Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Retrospect, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, World, Daring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Inward, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.442, Harvard University Press

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• The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Voice, Tone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

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• In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Virtue, Comprehension

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.60, Penguin

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• In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.157

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• The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Sleep, Loss

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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• Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Views, Society, Citizens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.223, University of Georgia Press

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• Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Coal, Saving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.319, Harvard University Press

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• English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doors, English History, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

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• Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wine, Epic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• To the birds and trees he talks:
  Caesar of his leafy Rome,
  There the poet is at home.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Home, Rome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.197, Everyman's Library

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• For this present, hard
  Is the fortune of the bard,
  Born out of time;
  All his accomplishment,
  From Nature's utmost treasure spent,
  Booteth not him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Accomplishment, Poetry, Treasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1202, Delphi Classics

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• In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Egypt, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Pride, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin

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• But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Sunset, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.452, Modern Library

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• The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intuition, Lasts, Facts

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