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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cities, People, Growth

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Long, People, Suffering

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Debt, Pay
'Solution' (1847)

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Simple, Prosperity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization, Good Woman, Answers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ...: v.1-”

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mistake, Mind, Revelations
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Doctrine, Heat
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Eloquence, Behinds

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear, Social, Relation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.201, Modern Library

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius, Taste, Weaving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.96, University of Georgia Press

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giver, Being True
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.537, Library of America

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waiting, Surprise, Cupid
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.127, Harvard University Press

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1550, Delphi Classics

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Hero, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.315, Harvard University Press

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, History, Shadow

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Two, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.254, Harvard University Press

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius, Harm

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, Men, Differences
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Doe, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.199, Courier Corporation

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Home, Writing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.666, Modern Library

Youth is everywhere in place.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.256, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Men, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Lying, Loss
"The prose works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In two volumes" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2005.

The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Home, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.131, Penguin

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Joy, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.116, Coyote Canyon Press

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