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My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it

My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law, Giving, Pirate
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.43, Xist Publishing

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Sea, Land
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Book, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.281, Modern Library

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law, Opposites, States
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.91

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Orbit, Earth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.96, Graphic Arts Books

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saint, Poet, Lows
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.116, Harvard University Press

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mosquitoes, Woods, Walks
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.335, Рипол Классик

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Progress, Identity

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Men, Long

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teaching, Brave, Should
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.63, Harvard University Press

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Government, Editors

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Courage, Morning
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909). “Essays and English Traits”

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Vocabulary, Would Be
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful, Spring, Passion
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.419

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lasts, Strongest, Wisest

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Men, Light
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.738, Modern Library

Do what you're afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biographies, Stout, Earnest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, True Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memories, Writing, Adventure
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.315, Graphic Arts Books

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flower, Roots, Bud
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Errors, Cities, Clothes

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pigs, Judging, May

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Intuition, Literature

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brother, Broadway, Fields
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.509, Рипол Классик

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