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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Alienation, Company

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journey, Perfection, Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.484, Library of America

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Goodness, Good Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.415

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, Nature, Animal
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Рипол Классик

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Fear, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.96, 谷月社

Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance, Believe, Office
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Done, Firsts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.749, Library of America

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
May, Action, Circumstances
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.144

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Ideas, Space
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1183, Delphi Classics

We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rain, Men, Water
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1183, Delphi Classics

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two, Catholic, Humanity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.264, Harvard University Press

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self, Circles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.404, Library of America

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things Change, Platforms, Planes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1528, Delphi Classics

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Secret, Sorrow, Feels
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teacher, Fall, Mean
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Self, Knowing
"Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.463

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Physicians, Amplification
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.389

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Complaining, Leprosy, Topics
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

To be gret is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Misunderstood
"Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Men, Support
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.89

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Facts, Contrast

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painter, Verses, Conventional
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.259, Library of America

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essence, Inquiry, Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Garden, Encounters, Soil

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