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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Motivational, Single

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Stars, Boys
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Law, Individual
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.21

There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party, Two, Movement
"Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England" (1867)

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosopher, Poet, Aim
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.44, Bantam Classics

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Sadness, Home
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank You God, Faces, Hours
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, North Atlantic Books

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunset, Light, Shining
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.57, Coyote Canyon Press

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Done, Can Do
"Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 69), March 6, 1995.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Peace, Power
"A Year with Emerson: A Daybook".

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Nature, Order
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.361, Рипол Классик

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angel, Deputies, Millions
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.118, Harvard University Press

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Soul, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2410, Delphi Classics

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Sensual, Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.34, Library of America

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Sky, Space

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Bipolar
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.331, Modern Library

Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Men, Garden
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Graphic Arts Books

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Numbers, Action, Civility
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.440, Harvard University Press

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Use, Reason
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Learning, Ideas

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self, Hands, Effort

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Stars, Flower
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Eye, Men

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Wind, Selfishness

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