Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 56

• Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Going Away, Ashamed, Jokes

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• All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Influence, Natural

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Solitude, Cherish

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• The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Variation, Stuff, Form

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.224, Penguin

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• The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Ignorance, Bystanders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creative, Moments

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• For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Soul, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.314, University of Missouri Press

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• Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Miracle, Plant

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• If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Individual, One Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.237, Library of America

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• The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Kitchen, Finals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2128, Delphi Classics

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• It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Volunteer, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Missouri Press

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• The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Energy, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brilliant, Has Beens

  Essays, Second Series "The Poet" (1844)

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• The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Unsaid, Discourse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Sorrow, Feels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Fall, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

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• The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Self, Knowing

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

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• We may be partial, but Fate is not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.463

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• To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Physicians, Amplification

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.389

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Complaining, Leprosy, Topics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• To be gret is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Misunderstood

  "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Support

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.89

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• I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Facts, Contrast

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• I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Painter, Verses, Conventional

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.259, Library of America

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• The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Inquiry, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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