Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 92

• The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Mind, Matter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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• The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1345, Delphi Classics

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• Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  What Matters, Giving, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Gullible, Fame

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• Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Speak, Paint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.45, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

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  Inspirational, Character, Known

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

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• In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Eye, Agreement

  "Thinking Outside The Church : 110 Ways to Connect with Your Spiritual Nature". Book by Jennifer Leigh Selig (p. 53), 2004.

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• The less government we have the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Government, Liberty

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Stolen

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• A man is known by the books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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• Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Speech, Power Of Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

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• Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Busy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414

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• All vigor is contagious.

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  Vigor, Contagious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.184

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• Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

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  Fall, Color, Say Anything

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Diversity, Soul, Scoffers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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• A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Intelligent, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.434

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• Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Nature, Wells

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• Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Anticipation, Evidence

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• The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Purpose, Rich, Enough

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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  Character, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.58, Bantam Classics

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• He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Home, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.332, Harvard University Press

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• The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Sap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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• Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Drinking, Saint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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