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A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Games, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.132, Harvard University Press

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance, Greatness, Average
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Soul, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Self Reliance, Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.29, Coyote Canyon Press

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Suffering, Kingdoms
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exercise, Men, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.178, Harvard University Press

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Father, Writing, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twilight, Sky, Snow
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Animal, Self Reliance, Passionate
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.450, Library of America

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion, Reform, Obsolete
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Heaven, Fruit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.657, Modern Library

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Numbers, Hours
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.177, Penguin

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
World
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.236, Harvard University Press

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, Teach, Courses

Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, Reality, Depth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.385, Library of America

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Thinking, Agriculture
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.97

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Heaven, Every Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.258, Harvard University Press

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Aversion, Conformity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.32

It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Journey, Hiking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Thoreau”, p.21, The Minerva Group, Inc.

For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moon, Order, Tunes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.69

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Book, Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Rose, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.656, Library of America

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Home, Strange
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2117, Delphi Classics

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Wish, Rhyme
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.219, Harvard University Press

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Return, Action, Fit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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