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Character teaches above our wills.

Character teaches above our wills.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Teach
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Heart, Law Of Attraction

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Tree, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality, Self, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.42, 谷月社

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfect, People, Understanding
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.102, Harvard University Press

The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jobs, Men, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Antiques, Admiration, Natural
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Knows
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Reality, Quality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Stars, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.152

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Hands, Imagine

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silly, Science, Political
Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

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

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Nature

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Coffee, Alcohol
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик

Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Religion, Occupation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance, Vegetarianism, Ethics
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.4, Harvard University Press

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Greatness, Safety
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.170, Courier Corporation

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Suicide, Ignorance
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.162, Harvard University Press

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Way, Appearance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Angel, Endurance

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Selfish, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.207

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Angel, Dust
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures”, p.17

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Men, One Day
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect, Nature, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

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