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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Cynical, Haste

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Doctrine

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Philosophy, Rocks
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.184, University of Missouri Press

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Voice, Solitude, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Business, Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy, Atmosphere, Wells
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Military, Giving, Obedience
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.298, University of Georgia Press

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Helping Others, People

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photography, Thinking, Photographer

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
World, Whips, Nonconformity

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, World, Opinion

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Friendship, Sports
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Use, Unions
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven, Pilots, Way
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stuff, Made, Earth And Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.40, Open Road Media

There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Character, Men

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gymnastics, Mind, Walking

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grief, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.139, Courier Corporation

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

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

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Prosperity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2650, Delphi Classics

Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Exercise, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Sweet, Healthy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2886, Delphi Classics

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Doe, Lessons
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.4, Coyote Canyon Press

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Writing, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.201, Penguin

When there is no vision, people perish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
People, Vision, Visualization

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