Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 38

• Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Merit

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• The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Essence, Magnanimity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.70, 谷月社

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• Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Self Reliance, Good And Bad

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Learning, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Mood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2660, Delphi Classics

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• The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Mean, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.307, Bantam Classics

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• What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  What Matters, Matter, Behinds

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• By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Men, Sharks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.74, Harvard University Press

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• A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gentleman, Noise, Quiet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

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  Dog, Motor Racing, Car

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• Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Men, Poor

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'Poetry and Imagination'.

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• Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Mean, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Success, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.656, Modern Library

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• Pride ruined the angels,
  Their shame them restores;
  And the joy that is sweetest
  Lurks in stings of remorse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Pride, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Beautiful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.470

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• The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Joy, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.257, Рипол Классик

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• Be a gift and a benediction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Benediction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.320, Library of America

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• There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Tendencies

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• We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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  Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.456, Library of America

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• There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pay, Sincerity, Complement

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• Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Equality, Problem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• There is properly no history, only biography.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny Life, History, Historical

  Essays "History" (1841)

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• Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Vision, World

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• The greatest man in history was the poorest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, History, Historical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2442, Delphi Classics

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