Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook
“We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.”
Source: Letters and Social Aims
“[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Everything intercepts us from ourselves.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“He is great who confers the most benefits.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.”
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848
“The house praises the carpenter.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862
Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)
“How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations
“It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“It is a tie between men to have read the same book.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.”
Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)
“Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.”
Source: Culture, Behavior, Beauty
“What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.”
Source: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ...: v.1-
Source: The Journals
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“How much finer things are in composition than alone.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures
“The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“We wake from one dream into another dream.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.”
Source: The Journals
“The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861
“When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes
“It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Commonsense is the wick of the candle.”
Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842