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In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Successful, Air
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2474, Delphi Classics

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Sex, Wall
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Friends, Joy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.96

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Trust, Essence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.70, 谷月社

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Pride, Accomplishment
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Dream, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Law, Games
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.65, Jazzybee Verlag

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Friends, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.48, Courier Corporation

We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Stars, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Girl, Education, Teacher
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, College, Professors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Volcanoes, Eggs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Men, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Modern Library

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Names, Savages
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Roots, Intellectual, Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Men, Diction
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик

Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Forever, Verbs
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.294, Harvard University Press

The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, Art, Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.155

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Philosophy, Tests
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.30, Harvard University Press

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Thinking, Design
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.515, Modern Library

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Men, Hints
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.168, Graphic Arts Books

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Men, Decision
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1504, Delphi Classics

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Lying, Errors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.92, Courier Corporation

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Moving, Roots
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Opinion, Awake
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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