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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Waiting, Losing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.364, Library of America

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silly, Laughing, Be Kind

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party, Loss, Ungrateful
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.21

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, Recovery, Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Marriage, Acceptance

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Passion, Games

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Men, Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Fate, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Smoking, Should
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Harvard University Press

There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Grief, Reality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.85, Courier Corporation

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Land, Steps
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.561, Harvard University Press

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sick, Mental Health, Deny
The Conduct of Life, Worship

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Books And Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Pain, Teaching

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Hope, Women
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.97

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Race, Perfect, Civility
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1253, Delphi Classics

The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Education, Winter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1523, Delphi Classics

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Knowledge, Compromise
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.29, Harvard University Press

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Vision, Clear Vision
"Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Greatness, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.73

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Church, Preacher, Heard
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1124, Delphi Classics

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Men, Events
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1369, Delphi Classics

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Lists, Excited
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Giving, Dollars
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

Skill to do comes of doing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Educational, Self Esteem, Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.162, Harvard University Press

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