Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 65

• Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

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• In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Two, Depth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

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  Life, Men, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

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• The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Volcanoes, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

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• Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Selfish, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

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• Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, What Matters, Glasses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Miracle, Mythology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2621, Delphi Classics

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• Our best history is still poetry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Best History, Stills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press

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• A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Moving, Compassion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Destiny, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.87, Penguin

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• Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Hands, Firsts

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• For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Lying, Infinite

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Powerful, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.309, Library of America

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• As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Medicine, Criminals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

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• Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Commitment, Ideas, Discipline

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Ideas, Shapes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2431, Delphi Classics

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• A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.319, Library of America

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• Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Im Sorry, Public Opinion, I Am Sorry

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• Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Life And Love, Today

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• We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Valentines Day, Eye, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Father, Enjoy Life

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• One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intelligence, Definitions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2459, Delphi Classics

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• Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Lines, Reader

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• The language of the street is always strong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Writing, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.22, University of Georgia Press

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• So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Growing, Horns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.376, University of Missouri Press

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