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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Pages
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank You, Gratitude, Peace

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greek, Architecture, Geometry

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty, Gambling, Lasts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Greek
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.150, Harvard University Press

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gentleman, Sometimes, Manners

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, World, Tongue
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

God hides things by putting them near us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.198, Harvard University Press

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Land, Mind, Culture

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Race, Church, Santa
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.175, Harvard University Press

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Genius, Compass

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Draws
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Voice, Style
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.375, University of Missouri Press

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work, Squirrels, Nuts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.109, Modern Library

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Two
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.89, Penguin

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sculpture, Awful, Vain
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1925*). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in One Volume”

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death, Thinking, Red
'Brahma' (1867)

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear, Uneasy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.154

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moon, Air, Sun
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.161, Penguin

I honor health as the first Muse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Honor, Firsts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Should, Highest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.244, Harvard University Press

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Travel, White
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Sweet, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2657, Delphi Classics

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Morning, Wrinkles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Chinese, Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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