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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.

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

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Advice, Doubt

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behavior, Court, Maxims
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.97, Harvard University Press

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Giving, Three
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generosity, Giving, Debt
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.239

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hair, Justice, Judging
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tea, Flannels, Slippers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1200, Delphi Classics

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teaching, Sky, Office

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Men, Pet
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.388

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Progress, Events, Appearance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attitude, Reality, Men

Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Religious, Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Car, Movement
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.161

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Done, Gothic, Cathedrals
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.268, Harvard University Press

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Demand, Stones
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.227, Рипол Классик

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bread, Christ, Communion
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, Harvard University Press

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep, Power, Land
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.293

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Luxury, People
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2920, Delphi Classics

In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ice, Evil, Rays
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.398, Рипол Классик

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fire, People, Preacher
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pulpit, Worshippers
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.119, Harvard University Press

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty, Men, Independence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, Peasants
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.72, Harvard University Press

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

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

The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Land, Littles
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.509, Harvard University Press

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