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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, May, Delight

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Philosophy, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Common, Reconcile
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.379, Library of America

The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson
French Woman, Humans

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Few Words, Enormous
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.41, Editora Dracaena

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mediocrity, Hopeless, Doom
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.72, Penguin

Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wall, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.399, Library of America

When half-gods go The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Charity, Philanthropy
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Wisdom, Excess
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.447, Рипол Классик

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, White Man, Years
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.458, Harvard University Press

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song, Spring, Autumn

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Men, Feet
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

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

We never touch but at points.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.279, Harvard University Press

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Law, Rope
Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Past, Parent
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.125, Penguin

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Heart, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.156

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Heart, Burden
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003). “Nature and Other Writings”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

Life only avails, not the having lived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Life Changing, Inspire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.126, Penguin

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Men, Hands
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Harvard University Press

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide, Religion, Atheism
Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, March 04, 1831.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mistake, Expression, Description
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2580, Delphi Classics

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Political, Individuality

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two, Diversity, Unity

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