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  • I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик
  • When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410
  • By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin
  • Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

  • Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160
  • Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.294, Harvard University Press
  • Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.435, Рипол Классик
  • When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

  • Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

  • Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

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    "Emerson: The Mind on Fire" by Robert D. Richardson, University of California Press, (p. 155), March 6, 1995.
  • All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.75, North Atlantic Books
  • I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.357, Harvard University Press
  • Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press
  • We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin
  • I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.266, Harvard University Press
  • The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Graphic Arts Books
  • Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.157, Harvard University Press
  • My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.399, Library of America
  • Language is the archives of history.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.457, Library of America
  • For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

    Essays, Second Series "The Poet" (1844)
  • The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.298, Modern Library
  • History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.25, Graphic Arts Books
  • The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.468
  • But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик
  • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.79, Courier Corporation
  • Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.191, Penguin
  • Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160
  • An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.58, Courier Corporation
  • Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.244, Harvard University Press
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Conspiracy Constitution Contemplation Contentment Cooking Country Courage Courtship Creation Creative Writing Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Cynicism Dancing Darkness Daughters Death Deception Decisions Defeat Democracy Design Desire Destiny Determination Determinism Devil Devotion Diamonds Difficulty Dignity Discipline Diversity Divorce Dogma Dogs Doom Doubt Dreams Drinking Driving Duty Dying Earth Eating Economists Economy Education Effort Elections Electricity Elegance Emancipation Emotions Encouragement Encouraging Enemies Energy Enthusiasm Environment Envy Epic Equality Eternity Ethics Evidence Evil Evolution Exams Excellence Excuses Exercise Expectations Experience Eyes Failing Failure Faith Fame Family Fashion Fate Fathers Fear Feelings Fighting Finding Yourself Fitness Flight Flowers Focus Food Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Frugality Funeral Funny Future Gardening Gardens Gems Generosity Genius Geography Getting Old Getting Older Ghosts Giving Giving Up Glitter Glory Goals God Gold Good Deeds Good Morning Goodness Gossip Grace Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greece Greek Grief Grieving Growing Up Growth Guns Habits Happiness Hard Times Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Hell Helping Others Heroism Hills History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope Horses Hospitality House Housework Hugs Human Body Human Nature Humanity Humility Hunting Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Idealism Identity Idleness Ignorance Imagination Imitation Immortality Impulse Independence Individualism Individuality Injustice Inner Beauty Innocence Innovation Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intuition Jesus Jesus Christ Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Latin Laughter Law Of Attraction Lawyers Laziness Leadership Learning Leaving Libertarianism Liberty Libraries Life Life And Love Lifetime Listening Literacy Literature Live Life Logic Loneliness Losing Loss Love Love And Friendship Love Life Loyalty Luck Luther Lying Madness Magic Making Money Management Manhood Mankind Manners Marriage Martyrdom Mask Materialism Mathematics Mediocrity Meetings Memories Mental Health Metaphysics Military Mindfulness Mining Miracles Mistakes Mom Money Monument Moon Morality Morning Motherhood Mothers Motivation Motivational Mountain Mourning Muse Music Mythology Nationalism Nature Neighbors New Beginnings Newton Nurses Obedience Observation Office Old Age Opinions Opium Opportunity Optimism Originality Overcoming Pain Painting Parents Parties Passion Past Patience Patriots Peace Perception Perfection Performing Persecution Perseverance Personality Perspective Persuasion Pessimism Pets Philanthropy Philosophy Photography Physics Piety Planning Plato Pleasure Poetry Police Politicians Politics Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preaching Prejudice Preparation Pride Prisons Privacy Progress Property Prophet Prosperity Prudence Public Speaking Purity Purpose Purpose Of Life Quakers Quality Quitting Rage Rain Rainbows Reading Reading Books Reality Recovery Redemption Reflection Regret Reincarnation Rejection Relationships Religion Repetition Reputation Respect Responsibility Retiring Revelations Revolution Rhetoric Ridicule Rings Risk Romance Romantic Love Running Sacrifice Sadness Safety Sailing Saints Salvation Sanity Satire School Science Security Self Confidence Self Control Self Esteem Self Love Self Reliance Self Respect Self Worth Selfishness Serenity Seven Shame Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Skepticism Skins Slavery Slaves Sleep Sloth Smoking Social Anxiety Social Justice Society Soldiers Solitude Songs Sorrow Soul Sparkle Speed Spirituality Sports Spring Stay Strong Strength Struggle Students Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Sunday Sunrise Sunshine Surrender Sympathy Take Care Talent Taxes Tea Teachers Teaching Teamwork Technology Temperance Temptation Terror Thankful Thankfulness Thanksgiving Theology This Day Time Time And Space Time Management Tobacco Today Trade Tradition Tragedy Train Training Transcendentalism Transformation Travel True Friends True Love Trust Truth Twilight Ugliness Unbelief Understanding Unity Universe Values Victory Violence Virtue Vision Vocation Volunteer Waiting Walking Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Well Being Wife Wilderness Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worry Worship Writing Yoga Youth