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The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has

The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Ocean, Men
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.68, Harvard University Press

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Justice, Romance
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.245, Harvard University Press

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.25

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journey, Weather, Taverns
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.37

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth, Parthenon, Gems
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.53, Delphi Classics

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Being Yourself, Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Friends, Treats
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.47, Courier Corporation

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Science, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.83

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Men, Space

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Angel, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Greatness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.435

The world we live in is but thickened light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light, World

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Originality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenties, Saint, Four
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Color, Creative
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1600, Delphi Classics

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suffering, Earth, Wilderness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.41

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evil, Wickedness, Benefactors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.36, 谷月社

I am become a transparent eyeball.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Eyeballs, Transparent
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Johnson Woodbury (1970). “Talks with Emerson”

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother, Spiritual, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Woods, Walks
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.261, University of Missouri Press

If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hurt, Hero, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.774, Modern Library

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Use
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.54, Penguin

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Portions, True Gifts

A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Done, Rewards

The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Running, Dream
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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