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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Honesty, Lying
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party, History, Individual
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.408, Harvard University Press

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two, History, Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.270, Penguin

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Men, Hypocrisy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.650, Harvard University Press

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Facts, Chiefs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1421, Delphi Classics

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Intuition, Instinct
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Harvard University Press

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Lines
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.254, Harvard University Press

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Adventure, Years
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.5, Harvard University Press

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Magic
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.156, Harvard University Press

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Glowing, Experience, Audience
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.77, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

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

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Secret, Certain, Secret To Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.115, Open Road Media

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Secret, Identity

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, Death, Fear
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.306, University of Missouri Press

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Law, Liberty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.378, Modern Library

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Doe, Dishonesty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1446, Delphi Classics

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Future, Reality, Imagination

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Trying, Action

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Feet, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Two, Depth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Design
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Volcanoes, Sight
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Selfish, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, What Matters, Glasses
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Miracle, Mythology
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2621, Delphi Classics

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