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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Idols, History, Broken
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.210

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, People, Mind
"Representative Men". Uses of Great Men. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1850.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Effort, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.193

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall, Men, Progress

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiving, Homeless, Despondency
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2786, Delphi Classics

He is great who confers the most benefits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Benefits
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.35, Penguin

Every advantage has its tax.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advantage, Taxes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Ashamed, Our Thoughts

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Identity, Acorns, Fullness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Differences, Force

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Letting Go, Yankees, Teeth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4019, Delphi Classics

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giving, Aids, Sympathetic
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.321, Columbia University Press

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Ears, Singers

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Youth, Affection
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.75, Harvard University Press

It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Men, Ties
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.425, Harvard University Press

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother, Reading, Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.103, Harvard University Press

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Bores, Reserves
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Men, Blue
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.532, Harvard University Press

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
People, Mind, Littles
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Air, Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.425, Harvard University Press

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clubs, Produce, Conversation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.14, Harvard University Press

The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Self, Let It Go
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

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

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian, Mind, Mature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian, Stoic, Christendom
1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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