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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading, Writing, Lines
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.413

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Light, Self Reliance
1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you. For you is the phenomenon perfect. What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rome, Land, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.61, Penguin

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Luxury, Politics
Essays, Second Series "New England Reformers" (1844)

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Achievement, Victory

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Skills, Rothschild

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Funny, Men, Insanity
Journals

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shopping, Giving, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity, Men, Innovation

The virtue of books is to be readable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Writing, Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Harvard University Press

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, House, Shelter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1341, Delphi Classics

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Mean, Simple
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.154, Harvard University Press

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness, Kindness, Deals
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.341, Library of America

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, North Atlantic Books

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doe, Disease, Cures
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Thinking, Causes

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Beer, Self Reliance
Journal (1867)

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Motivation, Men

To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Mean, Wicked
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.450

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Roots, Perspective, Goodness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.171, Harvard University Press

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Eight
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.5, Harvard University Press

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Beautiful, Art

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Beautiful, Pain
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Heaven, Rejection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1531, Delphi Classics

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