Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 28

• The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Country, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.295

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• I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Hate, Rap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

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• When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Beautiful, Eye

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• I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Son, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• The world exists for the education of each man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.7

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• The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Disease, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optimism, Choices, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2782, Delphi Classics

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• To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Valuable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

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• Poverty consist in feeling poor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Poverty, Poor

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

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• Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Laughing, Be Kind

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• Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Essentials, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Modern Library

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• Men are respectable only as they respect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Army, Men

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

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• To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Destiny, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (195?). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies”

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• As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Two, Tree

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• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

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• If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Decatur (Ill.) Daily Republican, 19 May 1882.

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• Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Nature, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.323

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• Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Difficulty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Revolution, Slave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.492, Harvard University Press

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• My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Guests, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.407

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• The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Perfect, Lines

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• Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, War, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

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• The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Two, Creative

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