Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Licença: Public domain · Fonte

• "Of all the gods, I only know the keys That ope the solid doors within whose vaults His thunders sleep." ¶146
• It is thus written, because it is thus in life. Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature. We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good, but our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world. ¶152
• "Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave, and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." ¶164
• "Ne te quaesiveris extra."[145] ¶179
• "Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."[146] ¶180
• Cast the bantling on the rocks, Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat; Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and speed be hands and feet.[147] ¶182
• The other terror[181] that scares us from self-trust is our consistency;[182] a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit[183] than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. ¶194
• It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views. ¶217
• "His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods." ¶219
• 4. As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. ¶227
• Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them. ¶231
• "The valiant warrior[295] famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled." ¶246

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