Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 88

• Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Integrity, Dust

  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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• Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Use, Remember

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.502, Harvard University Press

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• One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Forever, One Thing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

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• Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Affection, Universal

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• The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Humanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Sadness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.9

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• The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Nature, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Nature, Fishing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Ambition, Clubs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.151, Penguin

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• Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Balance, Sides

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.217, Library of America

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• Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• There is no man of Nature's worth
  In the circle of the earth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

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• Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Fire, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2454, Delphi Classics

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• When the gods come among men, they are not known.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Genius, Known

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ideas, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cousin, Writing, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.635, Library of America

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• And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Flower, Perfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.360, Penguin

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• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading Books, Reader

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.200, University of Missouri Press

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• Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honor, Causes, Fortune

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is never too late to do right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Columbia University Press

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• Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Heirlooms, Forests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin

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