All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Energy”

“I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.”
“Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.”
“There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.”
“The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.”
“Coal is a portable climate.”
“If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.”
“Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.”
“What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.”
“Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.”
“Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.”
“It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.”
“Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.”
“God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.”
“God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.”
“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
“The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.”
“The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.”

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