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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Flower, Sunshine
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Real, Lying
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Sight, Funeral
"In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Birthday, Time, Men
1870 Society and Solitude,'Old Age'.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Keys, Justice
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

Liberty is a slow fruit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liberty, Fruit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.988, Modern Library

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health, Exercise, Effort

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage, Wish, World
'Representative Men' (1850) 'Montaigne'

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy Friday, Men, Advice
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.238, Harvard University Press

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mean, Fruit, Causes
Essays Compensation

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Law, Conservative

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Art, Inspirational Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Funny, Life

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Ambition, Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.140, Penguin

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven, Half, Might

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Greatness, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.263, Library of America

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Names, May, Morality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Friendship, Relationship

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Responsibility, Men, Sin
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness, Eggs, Way
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Focus And Concentration, Prudence

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
World, Ifs, Amused
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.180, 1st World Publishing

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Men, Horizon
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.37, Harvard University Press

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Justice, Rewards
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.143, Harvard University Press

Activity is contagious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contagious, Activity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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