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In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Children, Love Is
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.111, Courier Corporation

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wall, Rejection, Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, People, Defects
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self Reliance, Source
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.237, Modern Library

The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Animal, Self

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Animal, Order
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.39, Penguin

Quotation confesses inferiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inferiority, Quotations
Letters and Social Aims "Quotation and Originality" (1876)

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Diaries, Graves
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, North Atlantic Books

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, Lips, Trembling
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.302, Harvard University Press

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

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

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Students, Conversation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

All the devils respect virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Devil, Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.345, Harvard University Press

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny, Oracles, Said
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Might, Great Men

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Morning, Light
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.234, Cosimo, Inc.

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power is the first good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Firsts

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, One Direction, Skills
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.283, University of Georgia Press

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too Much, Dare, Duty

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Victory, Defeated, Born
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.228, Harvard University Press

Whatever you do, you need courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, Decide Upon, Criticism

Society has no bribe for me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bribe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.60, Harvard University Press

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Height, Determined, Pinnacle
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.310, Library of America

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Growing Up, Men, Library
The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Funny, Humorous, Names

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