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Every reform was once a private opinion.

Every reform was once a private opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reform, Opinion, Catchy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Preparation, Way
"Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 55), March 6, 1995.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Names, Titles
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.147, Harvard University Press

One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mean, Men, Light
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.123, Harvard University Press

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Book, Needs

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.78, Courier Corporation

You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, Years, Littles

Ability without honor has no value.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honor, Ability, Values

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouragement, Integrity, Niece
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.80, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Personality, Healthy, Looks

The house praises the carpenter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Achievement, Praise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.283, Harvard University Press

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, States, Learners
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Surprise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.483, Library of America

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years, Worry, Hundred
Representative Men "Montaigne; or the Skeptic" (1850)

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Garden, Hands
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.357

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exercise, Civilization, People

Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intuition, Hours, Susceptible
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Family, Cousin, Aunt
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.126, Courier Corporation

Live, let live, and help live

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Kindness, Live Life

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Clouds, Fickle
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.13

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiring, Angel, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Рипол Классик

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Philosophical, Reflection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Skating, Kind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.180, University of Missouri Press

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Sacrifice, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.127, Harvard University Press

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Egypt, Doors

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