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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biblical, Color, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2433, Delphi Classics

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communication, Apology, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.71

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Sea, Earthquakes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.262

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, School, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.397, Modern Library

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Grace, Honor
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.5, Harvard University Press

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inheritance, Riches, Heirs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Clothes, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.184, Library of America

The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Thinking, Done
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Civilization
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Sea, Circles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Race, Organization
Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.213, Read Books Ltd

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party, Our World, Done
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Inspiration, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1299, Delphi Classics

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Doe, Mixtures
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.86, Penguin

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Moral, All Things
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Church, Looks, Sanctuary
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.19, Penguin

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Space, Liberty, Individualism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facts, Individualism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.10

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Рипол Классик

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Gentleman, Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Government, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.531, Рипол Классик

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Errors, Discovery
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Harvard University Press

The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Men, Enemy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.72, Penguin

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angel, Kind, Individualism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.480

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daily Life, Individualism, Used
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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