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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Knowledge, Thieves
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.144, Penguin

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Kind, Trifles
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.97, Harvard University Press

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Depth, Life Is

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Simple, Worry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.118

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep, Eye, Night
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, Nature, Mean
Nature, rev. ed., ch. 1 (1849)

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Good Morning, Thank You
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Lectures and Orations”, p.103

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Book, Hero
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.74

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Ears, Catchy

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attitude, Men, Keys
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.177, Penguin

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Men, Brain
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patriotic, Boston, Cities
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.599, Modern Library

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Marriage, Wedding
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.247, Courier Corporation

The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transition, Action, Conscious
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.496

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Combat, Mark

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Insane, And Love
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rainbow, Brave, Doubt
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.168, Harvard University Press

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carpe Diem, Filthy, Carpe

A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Want
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.396

Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Spring, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The World-Soul”

But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Dragons, Principles
"English Traits".

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Justice, Affair
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.464, Рипол Классик

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Book, Arms
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2955, Delphi Classics

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