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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838-1842”, p.90, Harvard University Press

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taken, Commitment, Firsts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Player, Soldier, Way
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.233, Modern Library

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aversion, Taste, Companion
"Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Eye, World

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Men, Ejaculation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.463, Library of America

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Class, Tragedy

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sports, Teamwork, Individuality

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hurt, Garden, Spades
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.157, Cosimo, Inc.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Liberty, Ifs
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.205, Harvard University Press

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Humanity, Ships
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.19, University of Georgia Press

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Discovery

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
What Matters, Giving, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.137, Harvard University Press

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bridges, America, Rude
"Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memories, Mind, Matter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.12, Harvard University Press

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Wisdom, Clever
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1345, Delphi Classics

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
People, Gullible, Fame

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Speak, Paint
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.45, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Character, Known
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.150, Harvard University Press

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Land, Agriculture
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Eye, Agreement
"Thinking Outside The Church : 110 Ways to Connect with Your Spiritual Nature". Book by Jennifer Leigh Selig (p. 53), 2004.

The less government we have the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government, Liberty
Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness, Being Happy, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Рипол Классик

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Stolen

A man is known by the books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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