Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 70

• Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sleep

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• Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fancy, Riches, Poor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1487, Delphi Classics

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• A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Rain, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4053, Delphi Classics

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• A forte always makes a foible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Forte, Foibles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• You can take better care of your secret than another can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Care

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Criticism, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

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• There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Needs, Handle

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• If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Long, Attention

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.269, Modern Library

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• The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Theology, Discourse, Subjects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.305, Harvard University Press

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• I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Stars, Lying

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.163, Read Books Ltd

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• The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Jest, Earnest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

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• The order of things consents to virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Order, Virtue, Consent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (1989). “The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.31, University of Missouri Press

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• It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Doctrine, Wickedness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

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• A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Women, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1107, Library of America

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• A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Weakness, Might

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talent, Vocation, Persons

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• Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Science, Brave

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• Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Looks, Poetry Is

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• Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Gun, Fuel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

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• [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Ocean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

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• The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Perfect, Machines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Meat, Corn

  "Ode Inscribed toW. H. Channing" l. 50 (1847)

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• We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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