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People who know how to act are never preachers.

People who know how to act are never preachers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
People, Preacher, Know How
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.82, Harvard University Press

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Elements, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.28, Harvard University Press

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Tragedy, Barns
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.138, Harvard University Press

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer, Mean, Ends
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.53

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Perspective, Horizon
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Church, Might, Sermons
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Years, Next Day
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.327, Harvard University Press

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy, East, Delight
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.334

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Thinking, Cathedrals
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2353, Delphi Classics

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Heart, Years

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Regret, Mind Your Own Business, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.335, Harvard University Press

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brother, Disposition, Dissent
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.78, Harvard University Press

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, World, Revolution
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.328, Harvard University Press

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theory, Prove, Performances
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny, Doctrine, Resignation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.23, Harvard University Press

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Games, Play, Wells
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.90, Harvard University Press

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Relationship, Egotism, Benefactors
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.349, Harvard University Press

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shoes, Specialization, Good Shoes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2666, Delphi Classics

Souls are not saved in bundles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Salvation, Bundles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sound, Sanity, Relation
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.199, Harvard University Press

Every man is grave alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Graves, Seriousness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.268, Harvard University Press

The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neighbor, States
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.164, Harvard University Press

O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Stars, Home

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love Is, Greek, Desire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Giving, Romance

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