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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Balance, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Pain, Light
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, University of Virginia Press

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, God, Bystanders
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, North Atlantic Books

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Needs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.502, Columbia University Press

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Men, Tongue
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Libertarian, Spirituality, Sin
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.488, Library of America

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Romantic, Girlfriend
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.144, Penguin

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer, Men, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.276, Library of America

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Sex, Notable
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.386

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Intellectual, Degrees
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.33, Harvard University Press

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Eye, Exercise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2741, Delphi Classics

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Reform, Way
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.57, Coyote Canyon Press

A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Strong, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.468

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Determination, Power, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.71, Harvard University Press

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Play, Conversation, Feels
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Mean, Fancy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Power, Balance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.28

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Heaven, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.429

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teamwork, Honesty, Integrity

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Different Faces, Different, Faces
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.41, Harvard University Press

A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feet, Break Off, Waiting
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.147, Harvard University Press

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Law

It is defeat which educates us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Defeat, Educate

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Universe
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.30, Harvard University Press

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rude, Individuality, Wish
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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