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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«There can be no high civility without a deep morality»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization,
Morality
| Keywords:
civilities, civility
«Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there»
«Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
All Saints, churches, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, geniuses, hostile, monasteries, monastery, of course, of their own, persecute, persecutes, persecuting, routine, routines, saints, seeing, universities, using, youthful
«Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
bystander, bystanders, decent, graceful, heroic, natural action, natural causes, place setting, The Mark
«Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
brought, building, city, stone, The Building
«Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
abused, Among the, attraction, clean, clean out, good-for-nothing, had better, inspire, of my own, orbit, orbits, satellite, satellites, The Attractions, warped, warping
«What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
emphasis, great, heart and soul, right, soul, thinks