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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Men, Foolish Man

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Together, Way

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Students, Conversation

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Hate, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.278, Harvard University Press

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, Believe, Men
1860 The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hands, Gnarly, Feet
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boys, Giving, Accomplishment
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.406, Рипол Классик

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, Hope, Self Esteem
'Essays' (1841) 'Circles'

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Sake, Add
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want Something, Sick, Different
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2368, Delphi Classics

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Fall, Hero
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Decision, A Man Thinketh
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.36, Harvard University Press

I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Suffering, Tribes
"Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 205), March 6, 1995.

Truth is the summit of being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Truth Is, Summit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Intelligent, Competition
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1209, Delphi Classics

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Judging, Creative
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.334, Modern Library

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Life, Romance
Essays "Love" (1841)

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Imagination, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Grace, Bait
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Men, Silence
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.160, Harvard University Press

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recovery, Men, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tea Drinking, People, Tea Party
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Holiday, Nymphs
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Past, Doe

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Motivational, Nature

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