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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Blessing, Odes

The true ship is the ship builder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ships, Builder
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Community, Slavery
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2995, Delphi Classics

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Poet, Credentials
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.203, Harvard University Press

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep, Waking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.40, The Floating Press

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Constitution, Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1276, Delphi Classics

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Retrospect, Hours
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.168, Harvard University Press

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, World, Daring
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Differences, Inward, Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.442, Harvard University Press

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Voice, Tone
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self, Virtue, Comprehension
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.60, Penguin

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Creativity, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.157

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Sleep, Loss
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Thinking, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.182, Harvard University Press

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Views, Society, Citizens
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.223, University of Georgia Press

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doe, Coal, Saving
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.319, Harvard University Press

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doors, English History, Class
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Wine, Epic
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Home, Rome
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.197, Everyman's Library

For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accomplishment, Poetry, Treasure
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Character, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1202, Delphi Classics

In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Egypt, Hands
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer, Pride, Feelings
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin

But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Sunset, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.452, Modern Library

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intuition, Lasts, Facts

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