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Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moderation, Moderation In All Things, All Things

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Block, Men, Design
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Ambition, Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2800, Delphi Classics

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Coward, Manifest, Gods Will
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Secret, Who We Are
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

The life of truth is cold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cold, Truth Is
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.490, Library of America

The sun shines today also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shining, Today, Sun
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imitation, Models
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.143, The Minerva Group, Inc.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Attitude, Perspective
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.208, Penguin

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Danger, Calamity

The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Time, Black And White
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Shining, Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.240, Library of America

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.460

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Uplifting, Time
Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Elliot Cabot (1887). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a General Index and a Memoir”

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Equality, Today, Tomorrow

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness, Memories, Heart
Letters and Social Aims "Greatness" (1876)

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness, Beauty, Rejection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.157, Harvard University Press

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health, Meat, Sugar
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Snakes, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.159, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope, Strong, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.346

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Intelligent, Intelligence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Games, Play, Childhood

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teaching, Benefits, Principles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Song, Add
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.42, Editora Dracaena

The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Eye, Light
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, University of Missouri Press

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