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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock,

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, School, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Church, Devil
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Inquiry, Solutions
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.277

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Art, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, Greatness, Practice
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.74, Harvard University Press

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, Heart, Gay
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selfish, Sensual, Failing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Snow, Storm
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Soul, Immortality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

Build therefore your own world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Integrity, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Way, Persons, Loses

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Writing
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moving, Water, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.175, Harvard University Press

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sky, Giving, Mountain
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.43, Penguin

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Apology, Men, Wish
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Men, Fortune
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Men, Rays
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.30, Harvard University Press

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Character, Secret

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Past, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Loss, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.288

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, World, Speech
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.13, Courier Corporation

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Substance, Liquor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.160, The Floating Press

Let us leave hurry to slaves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Slave
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Nature, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1881). “Representative men. Society and solitude”

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