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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Nature, Simplicity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.84, Courier Corporation

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simple, Simplicity, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Men, Compromise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

The gentleman is a man of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Men, Gentleman
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

A day is a miniature eternity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Mystery, Eternity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.142, Harvard University Press

If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Thinking, Feet
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rivers, Environmental, Each Month
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.17

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Psychedelic, Life Is
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.484

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winter, Snow, Soil
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advice, Trying, Like You

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Men, Shoes
"English Traits". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856.

One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Men, Said
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.38, Harvard University Press

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, School, College

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Men, Keys
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.344

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Costumes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.86, Cosimo, Inc.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plato, Philosophy, Men

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Mind, Lenses
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.6

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Taste, Temper
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, America, Sublime
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Truism
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.21, Harvard University Press

I like man, but not men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.141, Penguin

Men are better than this theology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Theology
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Successful, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays”, p.287, ReadHowYouWant.com

America is a country of young men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Men, America
'Society and Solitude' (1870) 'Old Age'

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, College, Class
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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