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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communication, Speech, Power Of Speech
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Purpose, Rich, Enough
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Mean, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.58, Bantam Classics

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Drinking, Saint
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.91, Courier Corporation

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Men, Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.142, Harvard University Press

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, People, Intellectual
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years, Frost, Harvest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.223

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Animal, Mass, Chimpanzees
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.450

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dies

All vigor is contagious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vigor, Contagious
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.184

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fall, Color, Say Anything
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.244, Harvard University Press

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Diversity, Soul, Scoffers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Intelligent, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.434

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Nature, Wells

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Anticipation, Evidence

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Home, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.332, Harvard University Press

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Law, Sap
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.69, Harvard University Press

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Men, Busy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Deeds And Words, Purpose

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Beautiful, Foundation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Men, Liberty

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, History, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.350, Penguin

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Nature, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.197, Modern Library

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Grass, Duty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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