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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Civilization, Delight
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.143

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
History, Evil, Lessons

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect, Men, Feet
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.170, Harvard University Press

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouragement, Nature, Errors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Animal, Light, Ebb And Flow
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.137, Penguin

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Immortality, Blazing, Evidence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Beast, Descending
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, Soul, Vigor

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self, Helping
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.37

Society does not love its unmaskers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.506, Harvard University Press

Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Sky, Joy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.418

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Lying, Hate
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Selfish, Umpires
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work, Men, Aptitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Would Be, Politics, Sincere
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Army, Men, Cities
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Рипол Классик

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate, Men, Justice
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.83, Penguin

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Fate, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Learning, College
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Nature, Color
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.17, The Minerva Group, Inc.

All promise outruns performance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commitment, Promise, Performances

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Differences, Forgiving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.234, Рипол Классик

No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doors, Heaven, Earth

Calmness is always godlike.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Calm, Calmness, Godlike
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.530, Harvard University Press

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Knowing, Dimes
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.236, Harvard University Press

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