Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 37

• Friendship buys friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Rogues, Dens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.297, Library of America

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• Accuracy is essential to beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Essentials, Accuracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.351, Modern Library

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• Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Mind, Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.161

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• The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Understanding, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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• Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Heaven, Deceived

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.188, Harvard University Press

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• Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Speech, Next, Provocative

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• Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.308

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• The eye of prudence may never shut.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, May, Prudence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Valuable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Penguin

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• Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Character, Mean

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• Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

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• A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Truth, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.154

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• All necessary truth is its own evidence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Truth Is, Evidence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Cost, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Soul, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.393, Library of America

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• Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving Up, Thinking, Giving

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• The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tired, Eye, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, Modern Library

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• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Men, Awake At Night

  Nature ch. 8 (1836).

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• Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Weed, House

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• We change whether we like it or not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change

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• Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Joy, Soul, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.77

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• In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Deep Life, Deep Thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.71

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• Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Liberty, Principles

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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