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1890 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.', 'For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.', and 'Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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28 de jan. de 2023 · Discover the wisdom of the 19th century writer, poet, and thinker in these 150 thought-provoking quotes. From life, success, friendship, to beauty, Emerson covers a wide range of topics with his insightful and inspiring words.
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Journals
1. To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. 1.1. 20 December 1822 1. When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. 1.1. 10 December 1824 1. The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law. Every...
Nature
1. Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? 1.1. Introduction 1. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswer...
The American Scholar
1. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking.In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. 1. The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. 1. The soul active sees absolute truth; an...
Literary Ethics
1. Address to the Literary Societes of Dartmouth College (24 July 1838) 1. You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear, that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name. "What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty?" men will ask, with derision. If, nevertheless, God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true. When you shall say, "As others do, so will I. I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions; I must eat the...
Essays: First Series
1. And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover. 1.1. Love 1. The ancestor of every action is a thought. 1.1. Spiritual Laws 1. Heroism feels and never reason...
The Conservative
1. A Lecture read at the Masonic Temple, Boston (9 December 1841) · Full text online at Bartleby 1. The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. This quarrel is the subject of civil history. The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world. The battle of patrician and plebeian, of parent state and colony, of old us...
Essays: Second Series
(Full text online, multiple formats) 1. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. 1. We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. 1. Language is the archives of history ... Language is fossil poetry. 1. Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculp...
Representative Men
1. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. 1.1. Uses of Great Men 1. He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. 1.1. Uses of Great Men 1. When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear. 1.1. Uses of Great Men 1. Every hero becomes a bore at last. 1.1. Uses of...
The Conduct of Life
1. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. 1.1. Fate 1. Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. 1.1. Fate 1. Men are what their mothers made them. 1.1. Fate 1. Whatever limits us we call Fate. 1.1. Fate 1. In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or...
Life and Letters in New England
1. "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England" (1867), published in The Atlantic Monthly(October 1883) 1. There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement.At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs. 1. The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself. Men grew reflective and intellectual. The...
May-Day and Other Pieces
1. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. 1.1. Boston Hymn, st. 2 1. To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound! 1.1. Boston Hymn, st. 17 1. O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire. 1.1. Ode, st. 1 1. United States! the ages plead, — Present and Past in under-song, — Go put your cre...
Society and Solitude
1. God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. 1.1. Society and Solitude 1. We boil at different degrees. 1.1. Eloquence 1. The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs. 1.1. Eloquence 1. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. 1.1. Domestic Life 1. The days .... come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gi...
Letters and Social Aims
1. Science does not know its debt to imagination. 1.1. Poetry and Imagination 1. Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. 1.1. Poetry and Imagination 1. Music is the poor man's Parnassus. 1.1. Poetry and Imagination 1. The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. 1.1. Poetry and Imagination 1. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. 1.1. Social Aims
7 de mar. de 2022 · A collection of quotes by the American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson on various topics, such as self-reliance, nature, ambition, and friendship. Find the most famous, the best, and the fake Emerson quotes, as well as short and long ones.
Browse 97 of the best book quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American essayist and poet. Find inspirational and thought-provoking quotes on topics such as nature, beauty, courage, self-reliance, and more.
