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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Temptation
| Keywords:
islander, Islanders, sandwich, sandwiches, Sandwich Is, temptations, The Temptations, valor
«It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
article, Back To Reality, biography, by and by, despised, fishing, infer, inferred, infers, miniature, paraphrase, paraphrases, pond, recollections, rich person, tame, volumes
«The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
assumes, epoch, epochs, formation, household, infancy, operates, privation, privations, revolutions, somewhat, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, way of life, wonted
«Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
indifference, journeys, traveling
«If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the univ»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
adore, City of God, every night, remembrance, The City of God
«I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Americanism, apprenticeship, Economy of, mastery, midnight, phrenology, raps, shallow, tables
«The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
allows, avoids, brag, clings, dresses, employment, hugs, lowest, man of the world, performs, plainly, pretension, sharp tongue, speaks in, The Mark, The Mark of, The News, tone, tongues, unlocking