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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action, Spontaneity, Spontaneous
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Believe, Secret
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.294, Harvard University Press

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Men, Causes

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Long, Refuse

You cannot make a cheap palace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Palaces, Strategy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Penguin

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday, Civilization, Sabbath
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Knowledge, Communicate
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.29

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Army, Navy, Nations
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.22, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Men, Headache
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.118, Harvard University Press

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Order, Age, Ministry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834”

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Men, Looks
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.88, Bantam Classics

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark, Aim, Exaggeration
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hours, Sympathetic, Biographers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.154

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self, Law, Good Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communication, Thinking, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, Teach, My Friends
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.102, The Floating Press

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Nature, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.56, Penguin

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teaching, Intuition, Tuition
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.30

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Squares, Expression
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Educational
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Modern Library

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall, Way, Fruit
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, Harvard University Press

Shallow men believe in luck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Men, Gambling
Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Glasses, Criminals, Earth
Essays "Compensation" (1841)

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, Thinking, Two
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.166, Columbia University Press

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

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

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