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It is time to be old To take in sail.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sailing, Sail
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.249, Delphi Classics

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Sports, Way

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Squirrels, Glasses, Snow
Essays "Compensation" (1841)

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue, Mark
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.38, Penguin

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Latin, Sunday
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Stills, Spells
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attitude, Fear, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.74, Courier Corporation

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Eye, Tragedy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3240, Delphi Classics

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Pain, Grief
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Sleep, Honor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Exaggeration Is, Personality
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners, Exaggeration, Exaggerating
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.47, Harvard University Press

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Exaggeration Is, Generosity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health, Exercise, Air
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Hypocrisy, Curious

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Hands, Storm
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2650, Delphi Classics

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memories, Men, Yesterday
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.273, Рипол Классик

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Fate, Beer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tired, Adventure, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Statistics, Fagots, Bandages
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.259, Penguin

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Debt, Pay

A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall, Heart, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

When a man meets his make, society begins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Society

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Light, Sea
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, California, Better Days
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.331, Courier Corporation

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