Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 58

• Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Character, Foolish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1316, Delphi Classics

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• Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.54, Library of America

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• There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

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  Work, Hands, Hoe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.69, Penguin

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• A good deal of our politics is physiological.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Politics, Deals, Physiological

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.347, Penguin

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• Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Soul, Conquer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.25

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• Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Cutting, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Study, Influence, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Theory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Saint, Tire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.352

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• Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.

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  Real, Inspiration, Intelligent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Graphic Arts Books

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• If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Sky, Imagination

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.33

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• We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Alienation, Company

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• Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

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  Journey, Perfection, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.484, Library of America

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• Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

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  Nature, Goodness, Good Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.415

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• All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Рипол Классик

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• Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

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  Nature, Fear, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.96, 谷月社

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• Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Believe, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

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  Men, Done, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.749, Library of America

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• The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.

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  Men, Land, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.214, Library of America

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• The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

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  Fall, Blow, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.124

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• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Costumes, Deeds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

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  Angel, Thrones, Pleasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• For everything you gain, you lose something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Рипол Классик

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• The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

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  Children, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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