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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty
"The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Carpe Diem, Law Of Attraction
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.1, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law, Self Reliance, Sacred
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generosity, Advantage, Superiors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Science, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Lying, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Thinking, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.231, Penguin

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Power, Joy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Character, Hair
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.118, Courier Corporation

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
New Day, Looks, Praise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3883, Delphi Classics

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winter, Night, Tragedy

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Writing, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Political, Flattery, Enough
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.96, 谷月社

How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Girl, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Men, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.13

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Eye, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, People, Joy
Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, Ocean, Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.232, Harvard University Press

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Savages, Desert

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wind, Wings, Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.

It's a luxury to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luxury, Understood
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1826-1832”

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Events, Moments, Higher
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.5, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Becoming, Worship

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Public Opinion, Looks
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.231, Courier Corporation

When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Views, Together, Pieces

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