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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health, Destiny, Use
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with annotations edited by Edward Waldo Emerson, and Waldo Emerson Forbes”, p.78, Рипол Классик

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Inspiration, Greatness
Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Hypocrite, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.144, Library of America

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt, World, Pay
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.109, 1st World Publishing

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dog, Fashion, Clothes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading, Library, Paper
"Society and Solitude and Other Essays".

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Fate, Intelligent
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.23

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Relationship, Money, Taken
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

A man is related to all nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Nature, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.24, 谷月社

A man is a god in ruins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Art, Philosophy
Nature ch. 8 (1836).

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want, What You Want

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Strength, Best Husband

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taken, People, Public Speaking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.285, Penguin

The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunshine, Fire, Wind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.699, Modern Library

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sarcasm, Men, Wish
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2381, Delphi Classics

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, War, Corn

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Champion, Trying
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.134, Cosimo, Inc.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Innovation, Insightful
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.220, David R. Godine Publisher

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Law, Political
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.525, Рипол Классик

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Imagination, Veils
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.90, Harvard University Press

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business, Men, Evil
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.45, Penguin

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power, Men, One Direction
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.283, University of Georgia Press

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work, Men, Balance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.63, Xist Publishing

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Thinking, Vices

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