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All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light, Alcohol, Rare Moments

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beer, Alcohol, Feelings
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.142, Harvard University Press

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Emotional, Feelings
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.46, Harvard University Press

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Greatness, Forever

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, Art, Hero
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1365, Delphi Classics

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Beautiful, Art
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.529, Library of America

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Suggestions

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bullying, Men, Hands
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.320, Harvard University Press

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Character, Personality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion, Clothes, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, Son, Iron
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.26, Library of America

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Cheer, Teaching
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.182

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mistake, Believe, Errors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3925, Delphi Classics

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teacher, School, Understanding
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Apples, Experience
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance, Teaching, Quality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.218, Cosimo, Inc.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Fate, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.23

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Citizens, Genius, Talent
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.265, Harvard University Press

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Errors, Profound, Everyday

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Men, Spirit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simple, Law, Unseen
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exercise, Law, Imagination

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Romance, Ships, Sail
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.202, Penguin

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Race, Politics
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred, Selfishness, Radicalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.376, Library of America

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