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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Pictures must not be too picturesque.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Vision
| Keywords:
pictures, picturesque
«Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
am, contradicted, contradicting, dreaming, fall, fall into, into, I am, let, mistake, persecuted, persecutes, persecuting, vulgar
«I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplishes, attractions, awakening, awakenings, boys, compulsion, elective, instructor, instructors, marking, opening, professor, pupils, put on, scholarship, schools, school system, studies, The Attractions, ungracious
«The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Charity
| Keywords:
charity, preserve, preserving
«A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.»
«A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Economics,
Money
| Keywords:
fuel, magnificence
«I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
broad, hesitate, Hesitated, hesitating, insight, Real Book, sentiment, translatable, translations
«The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Night
| Keywords:
archangel, archangels, break out, midnight, The Rising
«When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Adventure
| Keywords:
adventurer, adventurers, beard, boldly, bullied, Bullies, bully, bullying, resolute, scare, scare away, tie-on, tied, timid
«My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Clocks,
Time
| Keywords:
clock, The Visitors, visitors