Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 50

• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Gratitude, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

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• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Men, Vegetables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

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• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Food, Eating Good

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

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• Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

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• For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Air, Poetry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.187, Penguin

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• Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Book, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.134, 谷月社

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• Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Portraits, Currency, Stamps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Self, Foreigners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.156, Penguin

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• No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Covenant, Higher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

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• The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  His Love, Lovers, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Harvard University Press

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• We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Yesterday, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.233, University of Georgia Press

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• God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Gods Will, Theatrical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.374, Harvard University Press

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• We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Wish, Might

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Tragedy, Vices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.98, Harvard University Press

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• War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Saving Private Ryan

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Epidemics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Bricks, Divine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Causes, Sentences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Zodiac, Rainbow, Brave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.423, Harvard University Press

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• Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Interviews, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Europe, America

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• A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

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• Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Dimensions, Infinite

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.42

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• As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Empires, Economy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.122, Jazzybee Verlag

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