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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
History, Village, Shallow
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.6, Library of America

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Flow, Transition
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.48, U of Nebraska Press

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Thoughtful, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1169, Delphi Classics

To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Flower, Thinking
"The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures", Vol. 1, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2006.

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Lying, Thoughtful
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “The method of nature: An oration, delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, in Maine, August 11, 1841”, p.7

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Wisdom, Time
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Children, Doctors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays - First Series”, p.274, The Floating Press

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Wisdom, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.192, David R. Godine Publisher

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Wisdom, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.386, Modern Library

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope, Wisdom, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Knowledge, Suffering
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Men, Class
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.171, Penguin

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Wisdom, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Wisdom, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Loss, Infancy Is
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.183, Harvard University Press

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Father, Believe, Son
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.381, Modern Library

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Faith, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, Men, Animal
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Courage, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, Envy, Brave
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1367, Delphi Classics

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Memories, Blessing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1456, Delphi Classics

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Hope, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Children, Future
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Book, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.90

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Friendship, Reflection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

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