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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not

No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Class, Mind, Quality

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Special, Society, Together
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.487, Рипол Классик

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas, Long, Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2744, Delphi Classics

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy, Sadness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Soul, Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Feds, Faculty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.231

The soul knows no persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Persons, Knows
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.107, Harvard University Press

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light, Style, Window

We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy, Men, Fire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, Рипол Классик

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perception, Degrees, Taste
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Army, Cities, Government
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acid, Temper, Sweetness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2782, Delphi Classics

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dust, Shining, Deities
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rose, Joy, Hilarity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Sleep, Incense

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel, Paradise, Fool
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Littles, Trifles, Small Things
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.338, Рипол Классик

I see my trees repair their boughs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tree
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.171, The Floating Press

We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust, Power Of Thought
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, University of Georgia Press

Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hurt, Truth, Ruins
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Truth, Truth Is
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.76, Library of America

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Men, Vanity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Roots, Yield, Air
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Рипол Классик

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Doctrine, Decline
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1890*). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson...”

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women, Lorraine

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