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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Air, Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.187, Penguin

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two, Soul, Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.314, University of Missouri Press

Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Miracle, Plant

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Individual, One Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.237, Library of America

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Race, Kitchen, Finals
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2128, Delphi Classics

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memories, Volunteer, Personality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Missouri Press

The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate, Energy, Arms
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.131, Harvard University Press

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brilliant, Has Beens
Essays, Second Series "The Poet" (1844)

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unsaid, Discourse
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.51, Harvard University Press

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Book, Beer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.134, 谷月社

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Gratitude, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Food, Men, Vegetables
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Food, Eating Good
1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness, Sacrifice, Good Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith, Vices, Moments
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.385, Library of America

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Happiness, Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.197, Harvard University Press

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Native American, Facts, Natural
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Education, Time
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.61, 谷月社

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian, Heart, Office
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Sitting, Anarchy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
America, Fickle, Disease
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.115, Library of America

Revolutions go not backward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolution
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Conduct of Life, Nature, and Other Essays”

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giving, House, Spirit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.110, Courier Corporation

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mistake, Individual, Symbols
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1965). “Selected essays, lectures, and poems”, Pocket Books

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowing, People, Intellectual
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.491, Library of America

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