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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Self, Saint

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Thinking, Cities
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.53, Harvard University Press

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confusion, Grandeur
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.58

So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Dark, Secret

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Fire, Burning

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambition, Pride, Envy

America is another name for opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity, Names, America

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Birthday, Book, Writing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.65, Penguin

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hunting, Land, Shopping
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.216, Library of America

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, University of Georgia Press

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Self Confidence, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Graphic Arts Books

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall, Loss, Worship
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.85, Penguin

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
4th Of July, Patriotic, Opportunity
"The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Uplifting, Memorial Day, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.521, Harvard University Press

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Past, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Work, Path
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.466, Library of America

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compassion, Matter, Bees
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feel Good, Mind, Avenues
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.64, Coyote Canyon Press

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Children, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.76, Courier Corporation

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Heart, Simple
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Men, Disputes

No man can help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Helping

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Littles, Arithmetic
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.82

Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide, Lying, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.181, Graphic Arts Books

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being Yourself, Heart, Moon
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1911). “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION”

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