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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about History

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Language is the archives of history.

Language is the archives of history.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.457, Library of America

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2442, Delphi Classics

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.408, Harvard University Press

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.270, Penguin

Our best history is still poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.443, Harvard University Press

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.207

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.6, Library of America

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.374, Library of America

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.260, Harvard University Press

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.153, Harvard University Press

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.97

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.159, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.159, The Minerva Group, Inc.