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Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Mean, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.253, Harvard University Press

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Friendship, Death
'Good-bye' (1847)

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Self Improvement, Today
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Night, Sky
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.816, Delphi Classics

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Liberty, Want
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.335, University of Georgia Press

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Sweet, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.615, Library of America

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Death, Long
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.97, Penguin

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Challenges, Negative, Cynicism

The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Karma, Buddhist, Buddhism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.92, Penguin

When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dog, Chasing

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Pain, Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Soul, Flight
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.112, Coyote Canyon Press

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage, Education, Women
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.103, Courier Corporation

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Nature, Morning
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.59, Рипол Классик

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Heart, Cake
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.562

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.259, Library of America

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Evil, Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Esteem, Character, Simple

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Greatness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “Miscellanies, embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.19

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
Essence, Names, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Harbors, Ifs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank You, Lying, Honor

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years, Two, Enemy
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.96, Harvard University Press

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Perfect, Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.653, Library of America

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self, Originality, Accuracy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.161

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