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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Men, Hands
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4249, Delphi Classics

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful, Genius, Labor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.93, Penguin

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vanity, Profound, Veins
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, People, Fancy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.75, Coyote Canyon Press

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Sea, Population
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.433, Harvard University Press

Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gossip, Sides, Spread
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.291

Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Knowledge, Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.534, Modern Library

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, World, Over It
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.366

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Victory, Instant
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.390

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Happiness, Beautiful
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Used, Symbols
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.74, Coyote Canyon Press

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus, Influence, Christ
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Luxury, Parent

We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance, Character, Men

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Eye, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2582, Delphi Classics

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Philosophy, Long
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Nature, Swag
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity, Giving, Gone
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rome, Paris, Doe

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suicide, Way

Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Expression, Musical, Musical Expression
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Father, Soul

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Stars, Moon
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Law, Imperfection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wind, Wilderness, Bent
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.165, Delphi Classics

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