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Only to youth will spring be spring.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Children, Spring
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.237, Delphi Classics

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven, Awkward, Forgiving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2397, Delphi Classics

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Men, Effort
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3208, Delphi Classics

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Teaching, Learning

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gun, Bird
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.522

In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Talking, Years
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insulting, Doe, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.94, Penguin

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gossip, Leave Me Alone, Luck
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Animal, Men, Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1601, Delphi Classics

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Home, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.86, Delphi Classics

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Aversion, Conformity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Harvard University Press

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self, Views
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1287, Delphi Classics

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government, Self, Want
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.37, Courier Corporation

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Light, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.41, 谷月社

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Independent, Men, Jail
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self Reliance, Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.166, Harvard University Press

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Usage, Force
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.263, Library of America

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Knows, Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.23, Coyote Canyon Press

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self, Pedigree, Young
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.26, Coyote Canyon Press

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Please Me, Self Reliance, Wish
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.40

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Self Reliance, Spirit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.28, Coyote Canyon Press

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Men, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.142, Harvard University Press

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Break, Should
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.79, Cosimo, Inc.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Eye, Past
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1283, Delphi Classics

The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Loyal, Shrines, Forests
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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