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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rome, London, Epitome
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.364, Penguin

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Luck, Skepticism

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Doe, Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.261, Penguin

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Neurosis, Disease
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.24, Harvard University Press

God is Unity, but always works in variety.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oneness, Unity, Variety
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.177, Harvard University Press

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Differences, Forgiving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Рипол Классик

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Overcoming, Resistance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

There is no true orator who is not a hero.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Oratory, Orators
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.94

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paradise, Surprise, Stairways
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4360, Delphi Classics

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feelings, Would Be, Poverty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artist, Hands, Gone
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.386, Harvard University Press

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Two, Humanity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.382, Harvard University Press

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
People, Curiosity, Importance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, House, He Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.105, U of Nebraska Press

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Effort, Bird, Cost
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.163, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful, Men, Talking
"Letters and social aims". Inspiration. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1875.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Ministry, Apparitions
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painting, Best Picture, Painter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Hands
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perseverance, What If, Dirt
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Eye, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.152

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Spiritual, Art
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.163

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Comfort, Relief
Journal, 1864, in Linda Allardt et al. (eds.) 'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson' vol. 15, 1860-6 (1982) p. 428

The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years, Suffering, Sound
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wind, Bikers

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