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The never-ending task of self improvement.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Success, Self

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dark, Chaos
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.128, Harvard University Press

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Congratulations, Risk
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Demonology”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acceptance, Heaven, Ships
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Hands, People

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Character, Public Opinion

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Luxury, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Society and solitude”

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Power, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Penguin

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Wall, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.206, Courier Corporation

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity, Energy, Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.266, Harvard University Press

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
History, Profound, Causes
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.260, Harvard University Press

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anniversary, Love Is, Heard
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4327, Delphi Classics

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government, Evil, Wickedness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.347

The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communication, Passion, Men

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Real, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Two, Feelings
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.89

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teacher, Children, Humility
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2751, Delphi Classics

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Pride, Gay
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crime, Cures, Blunders
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Said, Ifs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.321, Columbia University Press

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Lying, World
Essays "Spiritual Laws" (1841)

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sick, Leisure, Illness
Journals Vol. V

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Science, Microscopes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.108, Courier Corporation

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice, Should, Interest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.260

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clever, Hate, Book
Journal, May 1849

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