Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 17

• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Kindness, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.418, Рипол Классик

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• What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Words You Speak, Speak, Thunder

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• It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Integrity, Self Esteem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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• When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Suicidal, Suicide Inspirational

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• Sorrow makes us all children again -
  destroys all differences of intellect.
  The wisest know nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sad, Children, Condolences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  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.128, Harvard University Press

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• The primary wisdom is intuition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intuition, Primaries

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• There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Listening, Guidance, Right Words

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

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• Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Nature, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Alienation, Intervention

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Soul, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.57, Library of America

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• Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exaggeration Is, Vices, Function

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• The force of character is cumulative.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Character, Force

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Time, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.326, Modern Library

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• Our expenses are all for conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Individuality, Conformity, Expenses

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• If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Facts, Window

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Sight, Cynical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

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• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Balance, Easy

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• A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Dresses

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

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• Fate is unpenetrated causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.331

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• Live in the sunshine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.213

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• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

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• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Pride, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Lectures and Biographical Sketches”

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