Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 168

• There is no great and no small
  To the Soul that maketh all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.1, Coyote Canyon Press

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• If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

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  Spiritual, Morality, Practicals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2741, Delphi Classics

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• The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

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  Hero, Empowering, Pockets

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.250, University of Georgia Press

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• The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

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  Summer, Song, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Home, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

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  Sex, Carriages, Courtship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.317, Penguin

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

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• The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

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  Husband, Fire, Campaigns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.360, Library of America

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• Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

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  Men, Fire, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.165, Library of America

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• The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Numbers, Wealth

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• Make youself necessary to someone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.

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  Sweet, Blow, Men

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• My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

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  Way, Tongue, Pens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.889, Delphi Classics

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• The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sun, Sole, Giver

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.610, Delphi Classics

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• I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that youshould. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust thatwhat is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moonwhatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, Iwill love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself byhypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truthwith me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

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  Hurt, Love You, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.128, Penguin

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• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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  Funny, Beauty, Humor

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• I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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  Love, Children, Corn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

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  Divorce, People, Arrogance

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• Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

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  Needs, Volume, Need Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.160, The Floating Press

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• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Dollars, Injustice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.352

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• The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

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  Hero, Eye, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Night, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.

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  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

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  Eye, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.183, Penguin

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• All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Improvement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.279, Library of America

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