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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Mean, Feel Good
"The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude".

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Men, Mediocrity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.114, Courier Corporation

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grief, Evil, Torment

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Art, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.153, Harvard University Press

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Real, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.347, Library of America

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drama, Character, Cat
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.489, Library of America

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride, Men

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Quality, Excess
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.237, Harvard University Press

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Buddhist, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.270

Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Clouds, Air
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, University of Missouri Press

Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party, Coffee, Mirrors

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Children, Philosophical
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.112, Graphic Arts Books

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Funny Relationship, Secret Love, Being Nice
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.476, Рипол Классик

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Greatness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wine, Men, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.329, Harvard University Press

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Church Service, Silence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.175, Harvard University Press

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Eye, Heart
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.9, Harvard University Press

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Beauty, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Delight, Facts, Invention

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Miracle, Soul, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.371, Рипол Классик

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Men, Servant
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240

If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Given, Ifs

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Work, Philosophy
1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfection, Action, Publication
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.38, Bantam Classics

It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Night, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1571, Delphi Classics

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