--- title: "12 Gone Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "12 Gone quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Gone sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_aristocracy_the-aristocrat-is-the-democrat-ripe-and_531805.png" --- > [The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-aristocrat-is-the-democrat-ripe-and-gone-to-seed/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_aristocracy_the-aristocrat-is-the-democrat-ripe-and_531805.png) > [An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/an-artist-spends-himself-like-the-crayon-in-his-hand-till-he-is-all/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7c/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_art_an-artist-spends-himself-like-the-crayon_814219.png) > [The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-masters-painted-for-joy-and-knew-not-that-virtue-had-gone-out-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/669/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_blood_the-masters-painted-for-joy-and-knew-not_174268.png) > [If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-at-any-time-it-comes-into-my-head-that-a-present-is-due-from-me-to/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b11/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dues_if-at-any-time-it-comes-into-my-head-tha_890606.png) > [Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-a-man-attain-the-highest-and-broadest-culture-that-any-american/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c5/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_accidents_let-a-man-attain-the-highest-and-broades_3042306.png) > [The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-democrat-is-a-young-conservative-the-conservative-is-an-old/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_aristocrat_the-democrat-is-a-young-conservative-the_1584531.png) > [Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-may-be-as-selfishly-studied-as-trade-astronomy-to-the-selfish/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_anatomy_nature-may-be-as-selfishly-studied-as-tr_364152.png) > [What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/what-terrible-questions-we-are-learning-to-ask-the-former-men/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_asks_what-terrible-questions-we-are-learning_741011.jpg) > [Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/fashion-though-in-a-strange-way-represents-all-manly-virtue-it-is/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_caress_fashion-though-in-a-strange-way-represen_2005020.jpg) > [Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/go-out-of-the-house-to-see-the-moon-and-t-is-mere-tinsel-it-will-not/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/218/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_afternoon_go-out-of-the-house-to-see-the-moon-and_134305.png) > [If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-the-king-is-in-the-palace-nobody-looks-at-the-walls-it-is-when-he/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/957/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_architecture_if-the-king-is-in-the-palace-nobody-look_2287595.jpg) > [By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/by-the-rude-bridge-that-arched-the-flood-their-flag-to-april-s-breeze-3/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_april_by-the-rude-bridge-that-arched-the-flood_2488122.png) ## Other authors on Gone ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gone/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "12 Gone Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-aristocrat-is-the-democrat-ripe-and-gone-to-seed/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_aristocracy_the-aristocrat-is-the-democrat-ripe-and_531805.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_aristocracy_the-aristocrat-is-the-democrat-ripe-and_531805.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_aristocracy_the-aristocrat-is-the-democrat-ripe-and_531805.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/an-artist-spends-himself-like-the-crayon-in-his-hand-till-he-is-all/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7c/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_art_an-artist-spends-himself-like-the-crayon_814219.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7c/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_art_an-artist-spends-himself-like-the-crayon_814219.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7c/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_art_an-artist-spends-himself-like-the-crayon_814219.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. 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