Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 165

• If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Divinity, Harbors, Grandeur

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

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• The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Sorcery, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.195, Penguin

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• It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taste, Formidable, Englishmen

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.115

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• Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Men, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2676, Delphi Classics

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• Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Growing Up, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Long, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.272

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• The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Age, Active

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.268, Penguin

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• We go to Europe to be Americanized.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Europe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Events, Praying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.325

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• A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Mind, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fiction, Literature, Biographies

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• The instinct of the people is right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Instinct

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

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• The poor are only they who feel poor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poverty, Poor, Feels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

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  Strong, Power, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Pieces, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1386, Delphi Classics

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• Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Sight, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

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• Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Natural, Theism, Science And Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Sight, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.409

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• A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Children, Sleep

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

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• It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Writing, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.225, Read Books Ltd

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• No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.86, Penguin

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• O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Port, Strikes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.379, Library of America

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• Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

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  Heart, Men, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.228, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A Nation's Strength”

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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  Wise, Song, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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