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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

It is never too late to do right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Columbia University Press

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

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

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.127, Penguin

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.401

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.107, Harvard University Press

Be an opener of doors

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.322, Modern Library

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.322, Harvard University Press

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.94, Harvard University Press