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The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these

The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Errors, Excess
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.264, Penguin

People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence, Thinking, People
Ralph Waldo Emerson (185?). “Nature: An Essay; and Orations”

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Book, Writing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Penguin

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Mean, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Graphic Arts Books

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity, Built
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Penguin

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Political, Principles, Fiction
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fiction, Preference, Novel
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.247, Harvard University Press

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Stealing, Goodness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.177, Courier Corporation

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Iron, Liberty
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, Powerful, Doe

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Pay
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.98

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Running, Desert
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.17, Harvard University Press

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall, World, Made
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.43, Penguin

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plato, Ideas, Debtors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

No society can ever be so large as one man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Individual, One Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1526, Delphi Classics

We wake from one dream into another dream.

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

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tree, Immigration, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Football, Law, Games

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Candle
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Ideas, University
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.49, Harvard University Press

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sex, Two, People
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4042, Delphi Classics

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Differences, Quality, Egyptian
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.965, Library of America

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
World, Bread, Finest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Wrinkles, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.306, Courier Corporation

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3933, Delphi Classics

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