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I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Humanity, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3145, Delphi Classics

Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion, Lines, Divine
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.185, Graphic Arts Books

Music and Wine are one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Wine, Musician
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.71, U of Nebraska Press

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Color, Snakes
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.53, Harvard University Press

Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Two, Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.152, The Floating Press

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Book, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.159, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness, Book, Wind
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.366, Harvard University Press

The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Rain, Loss
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.116, Harvard University Press

Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity, Men, Illustration
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1396, Delphi Classics

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Book, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.77, Courier Corporation

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Skating, Kind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Genius, Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.194, Рипол Классик

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Knowledge, Temples
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer, Knowledge, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Knowledge, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Perfection, Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.28, Harvard University Press

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Light, Presence Of Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.354, Рипол Классик

Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self, Flames, Ice
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow. House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Eden, Apples
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.158

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Islands, Race
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “An Address Delivered in the Court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844: On the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies”, p.30

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Art, Travel
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.393

Everything good is on the highway.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel, Highways
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.254, Harvard University Press

The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health, Sunshine, Sea
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.243

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear, Pain, Superficial
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.212, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect, Boredom, Effort
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.255, Harvard University Press

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