Quote

If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Sound
Rings
Adultery
Tortures
Made
Excellent
Hideous
Swell
Would
Madness
Mention
Homicide
Slavery
Bells
Louder
Raised
Organs
Intolerable
Nobody
Ring
Tasted
Blood
Sugar
Drown
Church
Torture
Organ
Peal

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson