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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Notebook, Morning, Men
"Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 384), 1973.

Nature abhors the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Old Age, Growing Old
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.159, Penguin

By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity : all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song, Nature, Wall
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.159, The Floating Press

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yield, Taxation, Taxes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.46

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty, Men, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.37, Harvard University Press

If the colleges were better, if they had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
College, Order, Rushing
"The Celebration of Intellect". An Address Delivered Before the Students of Tufts College, quod.lib.umich.edu. July 10, 1861.

If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Religious, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circles, Soul, Turns

Every man is a new method.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Method, Every Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.120, University of Georgia Press

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Men, Size
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Titmouse”

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Men, Hair
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.209, Penguin

As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Space, Tree
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.40, Harvard University Press

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ubiquity, Forever, Independence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Ties, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.85, Harvard University Press

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence, Speech, Silence Is
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.274

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Men, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1493, Delphi Classics

None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humble, Toil
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.172, Harvard University Press

Blessed are those who have no talent!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessed, Blessed Are Those, Talent
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.210, University of Georgia Press

All men are poets at heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Men, Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.128, Harvard University Press

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Century, Wit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.228, Cosimo, Inc.

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Authorship, Sentiments
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.155

There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Law, Two
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.108, Delphi Classics

To Be is to live with God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall, Bystanders, Sick
1860 The Conduct of Life,'Considerations by the Way'.

Who loses a day loses life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
One Day, Waste, Loses

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