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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Men, Egypt
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Home, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.93, Harvard University Press

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Cutting, Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4099, Delphi Classics

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Victim, Persecution
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “Emerson's Complete Works: Miscellanies”

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Air, Charity, Philanthropy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.203, Library of America

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sculpture, Form, Teach
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.252

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vices, Saint, Virtue

Each mind has its own method.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Method
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party, Fighting, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.279, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Needs, Authorship, Priests
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.40, Рипол Классик

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simple, Office, Taste

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Done, Said, Things Done
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.162

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Civilization, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.443, Harvard University Press

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Philosophy, History

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other Worlds, Atheism, Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.269, University of Georgia Press

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Atheism, Warts, Positive Atheism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.81, Penguin

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Miracle, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian, Rain, Fall
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.81, Harvard University Press

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Transition, Moments
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.126, Penguin

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light, Police, Publicity
The Conduct of Life "Worship" (1860)

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful, Self, Long
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Memories, Distance

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Sight

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fire, People, Endurance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2399, Delphi Classics

The borrower runs in his own debt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Debt, Borrowing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.295, Library of America

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