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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.»
«Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
crowing, dared, declaration, Declaration of, Declaration of Independence, disgusting, flippant, mistaking, preamble, right to vote, statute
«In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
climate, consistent, disposed, Empire, Great Books, India, pondered, ponders, serene, spoke, unworthy
«The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas»
«Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.»
«There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
awful, earliest, Greek, manners, Parthenon, sculpture, sculptures, splendor, splendors, The Parthenon, The Remains of the
«A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely, but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw»
«They (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 gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away»
«The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
architect, radiance, Sculptor, stimulates
«New York is a sucked orange.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
sucked
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