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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Diving Deep, Sea

A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Country, Mean
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.295

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Failure, Spurs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.267, Penguin

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Рипол Классик

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness, Time Management, Hours
'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

There is always safety in valor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Safety, Valor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.913, Library of America

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plato, Party, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.102, Penguin

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Perception, Moral
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Hate, Monopoly
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Envy, Pay, Distinction
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.202, Harvard University Press

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Nonconformist, Be A Man

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Son, Pay
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Harvard University Press

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Ifs
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.60, Harvard University Press

Language is fossil Poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry, Fossils, Language
'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'The Poet'

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Motivational, Work
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Disease, Want
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Satisfaction, Remedy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Mean, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Humility, Humble
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Success, Death

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sisterhood, Civilization, Good Woman
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.12, Harvard University Press

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being Yourself, Self, Best Self

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Garden, Rose, Perfect
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.125, Penguin

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Different Opinions, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.107, Harvard University Press

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Peace, War

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