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All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Naps, Life Is

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Criticism, Pieces, Trade
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.73, University of Georgia Press

Fear is a great instructor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear, Instructors

Concentration is the secret of srength.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Focus, Secret, Concentration

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization, Long, Belief
1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Years, Drunk
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Positive

Convert life into truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Truth, Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Secret, Religion, Towers

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Attitude, Night
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity, Real, Men

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Ignorance, Skills
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.55

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party, Men, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extras

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty, Work, Writing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.565, Рипол Классик

We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dog, Horse, Stars
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Greatness, Danger
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.301, University of Georgia Press

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Educational, Philosophy

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Nature, Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.11, Harvard University Press

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Soul, Lazy Eyes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2329, Delphi Classics

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall, Adversity, Victory
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Time, Work
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Stars, Rain
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003). “Nature and Other Writings”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hypocrisy, Politics, Satisfaction
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.123

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