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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excess, Edges
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.300, Library of America

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Men, Love Is
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.63, Harvard University Press

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Book, Inspire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
America, Slavery
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “An Address Delivered in the Court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844: On the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies”, p.33

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work, Sunshine, Showers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.400, The Floating Press

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning, Eye, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heat Of The Sun, Soul, Passing Away

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Love Is, Games

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Justice, Diversity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.545, Рипол Классик

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance, Adults, Sun
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

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Thinking, Dry Bones
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Preparation, Routine

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Imagination, Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passing Away, Transcendental
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.211, Harvard University Press

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Country, Travel
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

God hid the whole world in thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, World, Whole
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.93, Delphi Classics

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Eternity, Eternal
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Thoughtful, Firsts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.18, Harvard University Press

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teacher, Fall, Future
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.17, Penguin

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Kings, Wall
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.244

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Men, Individuality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2614, Delphi Classics

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Nice, Dirty
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.32, Harvard University Press

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion, Lonely, New York
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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