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The soul circumscribes all things.

The soul circumscribes all things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Oversoul, All Things
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.387, Library of America

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Wish, Chemicals
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.7, Harvard University Press

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Motivational, Cheating

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creative, Delight, Warp
Letters and Social Aims "Quotation and Originality" (1876)

Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Grows, Angry

Humility is the secret of the wise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Humility, Secret

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit, Grain, Folly
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.287, Library of America

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Beautiful, Hurt
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Money, Men

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Eye, My Friends
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acceptance, Events, Connections
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.118, Penguin

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiring, Education, Lying
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Mean, Conceited
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

The hero is he who is immovably centered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intelligence, Genius, Talent
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

Nature hates calculators.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Hate, Calculators
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter, Wine, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.253, Penguin

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Mean, Men

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Mind, Made
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.208, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Wise, Believe
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Men, Light

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Degrees, Fixture
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Sacred, Facts
Essays Circles (p. 297)

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Truth, Honesty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouraging, Nature, Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1003, Library of America

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