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Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the

Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Space, Leaving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.222

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Quality, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.233

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Space, Mind, Dignity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Wanted, Every Man
'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Nominalist and Realist'

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Land, Promise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue, Excellent, Capacity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence, Return, Degrees
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Girl, School, Boys
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.186, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sacrifice, Years, Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.301

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Home, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.215, Library of America

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shopping, Needs, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Way, Another Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Рипол Классик

A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journey, Healthy, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.195, Cosimo, Inc.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy, Wise, Brother
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.459

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Tyrants, Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.542, Рипол Классик

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Causes, Influence, Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Columbia University Press

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Numbers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.283, Graphic Arts Books

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion, Men, Honor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.90, 谷月社

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy, Blessed, Way
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.129, Courier Corporation

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reform, Reformation, Heels
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays; with preface by Thomas Carlyle”, p.29

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas, Imagination, Employment
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1180, Delphi Classics

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Class, Evil, Darkness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.554, Рипол Классик

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evil, Reform, Improvement
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.314, Jazzybee Verlag

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, Dwelling, Innovation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.264, Harvard University Press

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rose, Joy, Hilarity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

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