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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Baby, Children

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unique, Medicine, Battle
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.24

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Violence, Absence
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moving, Views, Use
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, Penguin

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, Men, Justice

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Art, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.158

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Blood
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.257, Harvard University Press

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, School, Knowledge

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Military, Hero, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.374, Library of America

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Men, Vices
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, Hero, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1367, Delphi Classics

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Skills
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2320, Delphi Classics

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Sleep, Night
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.54, Harvard University Press

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambitious, Youth, Courtesy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.406

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winter, Garden, Rivers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence, Running, Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Positivity, Lines
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Harvard University Press

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Littles, Performers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.283, Harvard University Press

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Fate, Destiny

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Purpose, Sovereign
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Badass, Hipster
'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Courage, Money
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.332, Harvard University Press

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Spiritual, Long

Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Makeup, Greatness, Expression

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