Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 23

• Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Doe, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.4, Coyote Canyon Press

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• And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Passion, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• There are some men above grief and some men below it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Helping Others, People

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• Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sight, Genius, Consistent

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• Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Enthusiasm

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• There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doe, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.246, Рипол Классик

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• Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Atmosphere, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Bipolar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.331, Modern Library

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• Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, World, Opinion

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• The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.201, Penguin

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• The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moss, Dew, Doctrine

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• Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Party, Government

  Address delivered on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes in the British West Indies, Concord, Mass., 1 Aug. 1844

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• When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sweet, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, Modern Library

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• An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Learning, Ideas

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• The world belongs to the energetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.123

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• Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

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• Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Health, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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• A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Friendship, Sports

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Character, Men

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• As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Civilization, Long, Belief

  1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

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• Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Voice, Secret, Heroism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1362, Delphi Classics

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• It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Drunk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Pilots, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

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• Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stuff, Made, Earth And Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.40, Open Road Media

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