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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alienation, Intervention
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.85, Harvard University Press

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Expression
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perseverance, Teacher, Appreciation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.169, Harvard University Press

The force of character is cumulative.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perseverance, Character, Force
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Wise, Wisdom

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Beer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Needs, Helping

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
People, Balance, Easy

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dog, Sight, Cynical
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Eternity, Young
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.388, Library of America

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Reality, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.21, Coyote Canyon Press

Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate, Causes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.331

Live in the sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunshine
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.213

Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Stars, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Harvard University Press

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Facts, Window
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope, Time, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.326, Modern Library

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goes On, Littles, Compare

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Soul, Foundation

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Player, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.350

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Advice
As quoted in "Think", Vol. 4-5, (p. 32), 1938.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Esteem, Pride, Light
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Lectures and Biographical Sketches”

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Success, Courage
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Inspirational, Life
Quoted in Moncare D. Conway, The Golden Hour (1862)

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Individuality, Conformity, Expenses

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Inspiration, Opportunity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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