Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 40

• Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Silence, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.426, Library of America

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• The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Nature, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.37, 谷月社

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• The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Medicine, Poison

  The Conduct of Life Ch. 7

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• Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Healing, Practice, Criticism

  Essays (Second series) 'Nominalist and Realist'

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• We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Nature, Asylums

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Would Be, Duration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

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• Genius Borrows nobly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Plagiarism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.154

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• The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Business, Men, Hug

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.812, Modern Library

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• Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.73, Harvard University Press

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• When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Men, Causes

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• Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, Refuse

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• You cannot make a cheap palace.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Palaces, Strategy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Penguin

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• Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunday, Civilization, Sabbath

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Knowledge, Communicate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.29

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• A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Squares, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Navy, Nations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.22, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Headache

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Order, Age, Ministry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834”

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• But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.88, Bantam Classics

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• We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mark, Aim, Exaggeration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hours, Sympathetic, Biographers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.154

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• The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

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• The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Thinking, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Way, Fruit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, Harvard University Press

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• Shallow men believe in luck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Gambling

  Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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