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Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy, Character, Order
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Holiday, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.176, Harvard University Press

The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Night, Color
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1252, Delphi Classics

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Race, Rome
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.366

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insight, Ultimate
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.9, Editora Dracaena

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Mean, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

Some will always be above others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skills, Common Sense, Enough

In imitation is a bit suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide, Imitation, Bits

If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Needs, Want, Ifs

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Ifs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.101

The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Secret, Students, Secret To Success

The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Method, Buddy

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, Men, Fantastic
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.134

The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, Intellectual, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.442

Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Two, Soul

It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Pain, Apples
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Graphic Arts Books

Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Enemy, Devil
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy, Men, Hands
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Light, Desire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.284, Penguin

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self, Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.91, Penguin

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Character, Mean

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Witty, Men, Disease
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Criticism, Lessons
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Real, Jewels
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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