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Today is a king in disguise.

Today is a king in disguise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1178, Delphi Classics

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.502, Library of America

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, North Atlantic Books

Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.145, Harvard University Press

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays”, p.176, ReadHowYouWant.com

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, Penguin

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.349, Рипол Классик

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.37

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.144

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Columbia University Press

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3985, Delphi Classics

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.444, Harvard University Press