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The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Men, Expression
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Wall, Lying
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Past, Years
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mean, Needs, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.23, Courier Corporation

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiving, Praise, Thirst
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.378, Рипол Классик

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Keys, Two

There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Lying, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.207

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Casual, Relation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Flower, People
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

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

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Change, Joy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Men, Pigs
Journal, Feb. 1855

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Humility, Practice

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas, Evermore, Screens
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.149, Harvard University Press

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Real, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.479, Library of America

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Book, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.81, Courier Corporation

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Calling, Useless

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brother, Farewell, Platforms
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.52, Coyote Canyon Press

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Imagination, Seeing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.194, Penguin

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Years, Long

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Islands, Creative
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.240, Library of America

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Motivational, Live Your Life

All history is biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biographies

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide, Character, Loss
"Emerson: Selected Journals 1841 - 1877" by Lawrence Rosenwald (p. 768), 2010.

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