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As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
May, Empires, Economy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.122, Jazzybee Verlag

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Children, Islands
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.155, Harvard University Press

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Equality, Together, Pedestal

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty, Eye, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Penguin

I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion, Eye, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.156, Harvard University Press

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Fashion, Distance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.387

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion, Growing Up, Violence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Firsts, Causes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.56

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Heart, Men
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.128, Harvard University Press

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Class, Two, Firsts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teaching, Philosophical, Gita

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Blood, Genealogy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Astrology, Earth

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Men, Tongue
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.87, University of Missouri Press

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity, Men, Visions Of The Future

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Appreciation, Art, Sculpture

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Power, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.160, Courier Corporation

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Break
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.38, Courier Corporation

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother, Nature, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1893). “Natural History of Intellect: And Other Papers”

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drawing, Wish, Degrees
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Law, Knives
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Rays, Atoms

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Natural, Nobility, Superiority
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics, Handicrafts, Poisonous
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
White, Trying, Dresses
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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