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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Soldier, Joints
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.53, Harvard University Press

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Worth, Answers, Made
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.190, Harvard University Press

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sea, Heaven, Speech
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.357, Harvard University Press

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Causes, Skepticism, Cause And Effect
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.294, Cosimo, Inc.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Men, Taste
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Writing, Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.78, Harvard University Press

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cells, Cities, Add
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Lovers, Forget
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3195, Delphi Classics

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Men, Lovers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.178, Рипол Классик

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Ideas, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shoes, Hiking, Numbers

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Nature, Order
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

Cunning is strength withheld.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Cunning

We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Nature, Ambition
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Art, Hands

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Faces
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.2, Harvard University Press

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, World, Divinity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wall, Rude, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.392, Рипол Классик

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self, Healthy, Preacher
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Modern Library

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, May, Soil

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Eye, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.313, Library of America

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Truth, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.755, Harvard University Press

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Snakes, Gliding
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.122, Harvard University Press

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Complaining, Red

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