Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 32

• Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Coffee, Alcohol

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик

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• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Hands, Imagine

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• Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.152

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• You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Vegetarianism, Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Angel, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures”, p.17

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• The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Selfish, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.207

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• Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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  Art, Religion, Occupation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Greatness, Safety

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.170, Courier Corporation

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Suicide, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.162, Harvard University Press

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• Men in all ways are better than they seem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Way, Appearance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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• Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Reality, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Angel, Endurance

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• He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Men, One Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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  Travel, Home, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.392

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• Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Nature, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

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• Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Weather, Savages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.94

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• A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Dream, Men

  "Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures".

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• If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Men, Immortal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

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  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

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  Death, Summer, July

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

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  Courage, Men, Being Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.309, Harvard University Press

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• The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2728, Delphi Classics

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• Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Guidance, Reason

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.357, Harvard University Press

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