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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Quality

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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Quality, Flow
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.170, Penguin

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quality, Haste, Heat
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Differences, Quality, Pleasure
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1352, Delphi Classics

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Reality, Quality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Numbers, Quality, Actors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.204, Library of America

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Quality, Paint
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Race, Quality, Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.775, Modern Library

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Quality, Excess
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.237, Harvard University Press

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Differences, Quality, Egyptian
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.965, Library of America

No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Class, Mind, Quality

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Animal, Quality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.34, Harvard University Press

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health, Animal, Quality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Quality, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.233

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance, Teaching, Quality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.218, Cosimo, Inc.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Artist, Quality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.223

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quality, Encounters, Body

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