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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.393

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giving, Architecture, Melancholy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.382, Harvard University Press

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Fate, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.178, Jazzybee Verlag

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Littles, Mood
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.46, Harvard University Press

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Thinking, Function
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.12, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Credit, Gains
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.321, Harvard University Press

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian, Horse, Christianity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.45, Harvard University Press

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cities, Trifles, Magnifying
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.396

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Cities, Materials
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.424, Harvard University Press

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Growing Up, Men, Majority
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3928, Delphi Classics

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harmony, Finer Things, Composition
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.198, Harvard University Press

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Individual, Riddle
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2254, Delphi Classics

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Covenant, Higher
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
His Love, Lovers, Affection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Harvard University Press

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Yesterday, Promise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.233, University of Georgia Press

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Gods Will, Theatrical
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.374, Harvard University Press

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Wish, Might
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.171, Harvard University Press

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Tragedy, Vices
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.98, Harvard University Press

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy, Men, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grief, Rain, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4053, Delphi Classics

A forte always makes a foible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent, Forte, Foibles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.312, Harvard University Press

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Secret, Care
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Criticism, Lines
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Eye, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Needs, Handle

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