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Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Judging, Every Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1102, Library of America

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Years, Nobody Knows
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.106, University of Georgia Press

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter, Laughing, Faults
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.115, Harvard University Press

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Sleep

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fancy, Riches, Poor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1487, Delphi Classics

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Portraits, Currency, Stamps
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.250, Harvard University Press

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Self, Foreigners
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.156, Penguin

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Stars, Lying
Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.163, Read Books Ltd

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doe, Jest, Earnest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

The order of things consents to virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Order, Virtue, Consent
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (1989). “The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.31, University of Missouri Press

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Dimensions, Infinite
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.42

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful, Anger, Men

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anxiety, Reputation, Solar System
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.423

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Utterance, Speech
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Love Is, Men

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Men, Looks
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.55

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Years, Three
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Redress, Calamity, Right Words

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Yankees, Unions
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.378, Harvard University Press

Conversation is a game of circles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Games, Circles, Conversation
'Essays' (1841) 'Circles'

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Night, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Men, Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.715, Library of America

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Self, Triumph
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.25, Harvard University Press

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feelings, Magic, Owing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Energy, Eloquence, Organs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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