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We are wiser than we know.

We are wiser than we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Educational, Frustrated, Wiser
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.174, Penguin

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Damage, Faults
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.301, Library of America

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
World And Love, Joy, Sorrow

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law Of Attraction, Secret, Answers

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Exercise, Voice

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Night, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.199, Penguin

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, World, Way
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.119, Harvard University Press

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Sad, Encouragement

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Plato, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rude, Self Reliance, Way
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Giving, Ridiculous
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1070, Delphi Classics

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, War, Democracy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Moments, Eternity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.220, Harvard University Press

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Years, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus, Hero, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Soul, Gardening
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Toil, Plot
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Apology, Self Reliance, Life Is
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.131, Harvard University Press

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meaningful, Memorial Day, Hero
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2613, Delphi Classics

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Fathers Day, Children
Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity, Soul, Mind

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wish, Littles, Anarchy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Penguin

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Sky, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1069, Delphi Classics

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Men, Garden
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.205

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Easter, Men, Eternity

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