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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Dream, Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Money, Real

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Writing, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

A little praise goes a great ways.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Appreciation, Littles, Way
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.198, Harvard University Press

Our distrust is very expensive.

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

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Men, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Climbing, Valleys, Come Up

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Mean, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Men, Light
"The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patriotic, Eye, Usa
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.465, Library of America

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Garden, Insects
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Power, Understanding
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1880). “Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm For Life, Triumph, Movement

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Justice, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.69, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Possibility, Born
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Firsts, Courtesy, Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.330, Library of America

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunshine, Snow, Bleach
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4294, Delphi Classics

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty, Men, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memories, Light, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Blessed, Mean
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journey, Destination

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teaching, Government, Bully
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Rose, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Hands, Voice
Journal, 10 Dec. 1824

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