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The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Spring, Moving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.410

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, Men, Sea
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.237, Library of America

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Self, Dues
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, Рипол Классик

A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humility, Men, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.122, The Minerva Group, Inc.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self, World, Mould
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, Hands, Forgiving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.536, Library of America

My hours are peaceful centuries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, Peaceful, Hours
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.53

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Horse, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.130, Harvard University Press

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Culture, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Country, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.123, Penguin

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Humility, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Blood, Apples
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.319

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus, Eye, Hands
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.60, Courier Corporation

The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teacher, Jesus, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.288, Cosimo, Inc.

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Sight, Rome
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dwarves, America, Long
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
America, Mind, United States
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.216, Library of America

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Sea, America
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.112, Harvard University Press

Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Men, Fire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2282, Delphi Classics

There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Hero, Sovereign
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.110, Delphi Classics

The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Events, Heroines
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.209

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Mind, Balance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.374, Library of America

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Hero, Shining
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.353, Рипол Классик

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Trying, Crisis
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.353, Рипол Классик

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