Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 77

• There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Intuition, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2634, Delphi Classics

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• If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Contentment, Analysis, Asking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.208, Penguin

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• Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Ideals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Past, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Men, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Destiny, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.79, Penguin

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• Beauty without expression is boring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Makeup, Greatness, Expression

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• There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Men, Sailing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

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• If we live truly, we shall see truly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Work, Positivity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Transition, Spirit

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

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• If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Business, Fall

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

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• It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Nature, Latin

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Other Cultures, Culture, One Thing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.324, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.84, Penguin

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• There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Yield, Law, Energy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.85, 谷月社

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• Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Independence, Unions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

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• Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Talent, Mankind

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• The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Levels, Drag, Mankind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2728, Delphi Classics

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• A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.343

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• Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Misfits, Metaphysical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sarcastic, Heart, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.68

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• The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Needs, Authorship, Priests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.40, Рипол Классик

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• Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Office, Taste

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