Authors:

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 165

All Quotes Acceptance Accomplishment Achievement Acting Addiction Adventure Adversity Affection Age Aids Alcohol Alienation Ambition Anarchy Anger Anxiety Apology Appearance Appreciation Architecture Army Art Astronomy Atheism Atheist Atmosphere Attitude Authority Autumn Awakening Balance Beauty Beer Being Different Being Single Being Yourself Belief Birth Blame Books And Reading Boredom Borrowing Business Caring Challenges Change Chaos Character Charity Childhood Children Choices Christ Christianity Church Civility Coffee College Commitment Common Sense Communication Community Compassion Composition Compromise Concentration Confession Confidence Conflict Conformity Confusion Conscience Consciousness Conspiracy Constitution Contentment Cooking Country Courage Courtship Creation Creative Writing Creativity Crime Criticism Culture Curiosity Cynicism Dancing Darkness Death Defeat Democracy Design Desire Destiny Determination Devil Difficulty Dignity Discipline Diversity Divorce Doom Doubt Drinking Duty Dying Earth Eating Economy Education Effort Elegance Encouragement Encouraging Energy Enthusiasm Environment Envy Epic Equality Eternity Ethics Evidence Evil Evolution Excellence Exercise Experience Failing Failure Faith Fame Family Fashion Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Fitness Flight Focus Food Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Frugality Funeral Funny Future Gardening Gems Generosity Genius Getting Older Giving Giving Up Glory God Gold Good Morning Goodness Gossip Grace Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Grieving Growing Up Growth Happiness Hard Times Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Helping Others Heroism History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope House Humanity Humility Hunting Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Idealism Identity Ignorance Imagination Imitation Immortality Independence Individualism Individuality Injustice Innovation Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intuition Jesus Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Latin Laughter Law Of Attraction Laziness Leadership Learning Leaving Liberty Life Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loneliness Losing Loss Love Love Life Loyalty Luck Lying Magic Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Mediocrity Memories Mental Health Military Mindfulness Mom Money Moon Morality Morning Motherhood Motivation Motivational Mountain Muse Music Mythology Nationalism Nature New Beginnings Obedience Office Old Age Opportunity Optimism Originality Overcoming Pain Painting Passion Past Patience Peace Perception Perfection Persecution Perseverance Personality Perspective Philanthropy Philosophy Photography Plato Pleasure Poetry Police Politics Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preaching Prejudice Preparation Pride Progress Property Prophet Prosperity Prudence Public Speaking Purity Purpose Quality Rain Reading Reading Books Reality Recovery Redemption Reflection Regret Reincarnation Rejection Religion Reputation Respect Responsibility Revelations Revolution Rhetoric Risk Romance Romantic Love Running Sacrifice Sadness Safety Sailing Salvation Sanity School Science Self Confidence Self Esteem Self Reliance Self Worth Selfishness Serenity Shame Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Skepticism Skins Slavery Sleep Sloth Smoking Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spirituality Sports Spring Stay Strong Strength Struggle Students Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Sunday Sunshine Sympathy Talent Taxes Tea Teaching Teamwork Technology Temptation Thankful Thanksgiving Theology Time Time Management Today Trade Tradition Tragedy Transcendentalism Travel Trust Truth Twilight Understanding Unity Universe Values Victory Violence Virtue Vision Vocation Volunteer Waiting Walking Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Wilderness Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worry Worship Writing Yoga Youth
It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what

It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Race, Texas
Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Elliot Cabot (1887). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a General Index and a Memoir”

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Art, Men

The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfect, Desire, Genius

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion, War, Sea
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.94, 谷月社

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, College, Men

Man is the dwarf of himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Dwarves, Mankind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Friends, Self
"Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson".

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Apology, Jewels, Portions
"Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.311, University of Georgia Press

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Children, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.25, Graphic Arts Books

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generosity, Debt, Pay
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angel, May, Archangel
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.39, 谷月社

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Light, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.418

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion, Atheism, Lessons
"The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures", Vol. 1, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2006.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Learning, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Giving, Credit
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.81, Harvard University Press

Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouragement, Past, People

Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouragement, Practice, Perfect

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Fate, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.254, Penguin

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Wall, Father
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

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

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty, Integrity, Failure

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, America, Liberty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4089, Delphi Classics

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Historical, Minorities
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Secret, Lows
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

You May Also Like: