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Life is too short to waste.

Life is too short to waste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life Is Too Short, Humanity, Waste
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.30

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience, Weed, Use

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aristocracy, Gone, Democrat
1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Dry Bones, Generations
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.32, Penguin

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Causes, Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2762, Delphi Classics

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.125, 谷月社

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Attitude, Drama
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.24, Editora Dracaena

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Men, Flames
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2353, Delphi Classics

Education should be as broad as man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Men, Should
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.287, Harvard University Press

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Children, Painting

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, War, Gambling
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.367

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Effort, Receiving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Modern Library

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Men, Divinity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.241, Harvard University Press

The pest of society is egotists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pests, Egotism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall, Physicians, Dull
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.801, Modern Library

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light, Ennui
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.455

This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light, Names, Boredom
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.260

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mean, Men, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.190, Columbia University Press

What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Dust, Excellence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.560, Penguin

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Routine, Extravagance, There Is Hope
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.90, Harvard University Press

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Sea, Miracle
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Expression, Play, Faces
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.116, Courier Corporation

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Encouragement, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.621, Library of America

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Hate, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.171

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Garden, Lakes, Blue
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.231, Delphi Classics

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