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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Mistake, Errors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Real, Glasses
"The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Honesty, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.128, Harvard University Press

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law, Wealth, Rich
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1173, Delphi Classics

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Picturesque
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.215, Harvard University Press

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Debt, Slave
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.346

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, House, Tasks
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Book, Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Princess, Poetry

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Writing, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1921). “Representative men. Miscellanies”

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy, Thinking, Tradition
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.7, Harvard University Press

Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self, Perfection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.111

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Greatness, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.136, University of Georgia Press

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Perception, Thrive
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.234

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Nature, Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.385, Penguin

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.377, Harvard University Press

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Perseverance, Life And Love
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hands, Giving, Opinion
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.536, Library of America

Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness, Strong, Eye

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winter, Autumn, Voice

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fitness, Running, Husband
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard G. Callaway (2006). “The conduct of life: a philosophical reading”, Univ Pr of Amer

Reality is a sliding door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality, Doors, Sliding Doors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.80, Harvard University Press

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Should, Ceremony
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Littles, Facts
Lectures and Biographical Sketches The Superlative

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pirate, Promise, Clerks
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.82, 谷月社

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