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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Reading, Faults
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Mind, Religion

We can only obey our own polarity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate, Polarity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.24, Harvard University Press

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, Dark, Friendly
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.123, Harvard University Press

All men in the abstract are just and good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Goodness, Abstract
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.100, Library of America

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Government, Identity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.566, Library of America

Great men are sincere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Sincere
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.107, Рипол Классик

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness, Girl, Mean
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.87, Harvard University Press

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroism, Lasts, Prudent
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.39, Xist Publishing

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Looks, Youth

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.335, University of Georgia Press

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
College, Years, Gold
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.58, Harvard University Press

a good reader makes a good book

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Good Book, Reader

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Genius, University
English Traits "Universities" (1856)

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faces, Cliffs, Hours
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.115, Harvard University Press

Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Faithful, Faithfulness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.69, The Floating Press

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Certain, Situation, Ifs

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Soul, World

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide, Ignorance, Men

We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother, Feet, Joy
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Real, Men

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Men, Sometimes

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inward, Action, Appearance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Coward, Finals
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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