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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy, Waiting, Oracles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.15, Harvard University Press

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Listening, Speech, Hearing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.293, Penguin

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women, Men, Wish
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.231, Harvard University Press

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angel, Science, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2539, Delphi Classics

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angel, Men, Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Graphic Arts Books

The eye is easily frightened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Frightened

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Nature, Real
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Saving The Earth, Mother Earth
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Choices, Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.102, Harvard University Press

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cute, Men, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, University of Georgia Press

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism, Soul, Limits
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.147, Penguin

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Imagination
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.30, Editora Dracaena

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years, Stones, Spirit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1511, Delphi Classics

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Expression, Moral

Life too near paralyses art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Art, Paralysis
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.273, Harvard University Press

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Women, Slavery
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.349, Bantam Classics

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Men, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.502, Harvard University Press

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Light, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.230

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

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

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work, Men, Iron
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conceited, Pay, National Debt
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inward, Lovers, Infancy
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.9, Harvard University Press

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas, Issues, Coward
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Church, Merit, Ifs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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