Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 27

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sisterhood, Civilization, Good Woman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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• There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2797, Delphi Classics

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• Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Hate, Monopoly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Nonconformist, Be A Man

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• The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Рипол Классик

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• There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Garden, Rose, Perfect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.125, Penguin

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• Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Cities, Language And Power

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

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• Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Envy, Pay, Distinction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.202, Harvard University Press

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• God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Knowledge, Compromise

  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.29, Harvard University Press

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• I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, Preacher, Heard

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1124, Delphi Classics

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• Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Self, Best Self

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• Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Time, Kindness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• Books are for nothing but to inspire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Inspiration, Inspire

  "The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Passion, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Government, Abuse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1505, Delphi Classics

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• Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ties, Mercenary, Hard

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

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• We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Different Opinions, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Weather, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.36, Everyman's Library

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• The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Moon, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -
  "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Loyalty, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.416

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• For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thanksgiving, Song, Sweet

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• There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Satisfaction, Remedy

  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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• Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Mean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library

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• The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Country, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2915, Delphi Classics

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