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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doctrine, Genius, Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Names, Doors, Gentleman
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Civilization, Grace
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3070, Delphi Classics

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Angel, Nurse

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angel, Gossip, Disgusted
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.403

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Grief, Grieving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.309, Modern Library

Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sea, Oxen, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.182, Delphi Classics

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Men, Horizon
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.9, Harvard University Press

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Race, Liberty, Prudent
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.413, Harvard University Press

Morality is the object of government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government, Morality, Objects
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.679, Harvard University Press

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holiday, Epic, Hands

Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a sweet climate by my breath, Washing out harms and griefs from memory, And, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Sweet, Strong
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.241, Delphi Classics

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Fit, Surroundings
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.161, Harvard University Press

When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Special, Asking, Philanthropy

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Men, Talent
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.205, Harvard University Press

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keys, Delight, Common
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.215, Harvard University Press

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Law, Insult
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.338, Рипол Классик

I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Fall, Heart
'The Problem' (1847)

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Men, Action

The beautiful is never plentiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Beautiful, Plentiful
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.95, University of Missouri Press

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Determination, Taken
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.373, Modern Library

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, Soldier
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2507, Delphi Classics

Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands; To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all; I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I too late Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daughter, Morning, Stars
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Days”

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deeds, Might, Can Do
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.49, Harvard University Press

Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Eye, Sight
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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