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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Study, Resources, Attributes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.206

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Heart, Keys
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.309, Jazzybee Verlag

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Imagination, Soldier
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.732, Harvard University Press

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Civilization, People
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.51, Harvard University Press

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Body, Teach
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.232, Penguin

Wisdom is infused into every form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Form
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use, Wit, Live Well
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.445

The finest wits have their sediment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finest, Wit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.414

True wit never made us laugh.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughing, Made, Wit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.81

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Ice, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.86, Harvard University Press

To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weed, Kings, Simple
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.85, U of Nebraska Press

Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Men, Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.152, The Floating Press

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Inspiration, Sunshine
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.162

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use, Nouns, Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.75, North Atlantic Books

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Understanding, Goes On, Matter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.399, Library of America

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Numbers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.157, Harvard University Press

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answers, Language, Asks
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.58, Courier Corporation

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence, Suffering, Path
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.298, Modern Library

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, House, Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.79, Courier Corporation

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Long, Use, Shells
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.457, Library of America

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language, Relation, New Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.191, Penguin

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Words, Genius, World
Essays, Second Series "The Poet" (1844)

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
History, Records, Gains
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.266, Harvard University Press

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Thinking, Civilization
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1243, Delphi Classics

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