Ralph Waldo Emerson Rude Quotations

Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

The eye of prudence may never shut.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.