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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hands, Giving, Opinion
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.536, Library of America

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Giving, Curiosity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.41, Jazzybee Verlag

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
What Matters, Giving, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.137, Harvard University Press

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness, Mistake, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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

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

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essence, Names, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Giving, Romance

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Men, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality, Echoes, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sea, Oxen, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.182, Delphi Classics

This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, Men, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Modern Library

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commitment, Giving, Hobbies
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Harvard University Press

A man should give us a sense of mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity, Men, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Men, Giving

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Party, Wind, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1502, Delphi Classics

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Giving, Perfect

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Clothes, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.184, Library of America

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Cities, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.542, Library of America

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cities, Giving, Water
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Giving, Fabric
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.146, Harvard University Press

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blow, Giving, Towers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.356, Penguin

My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law, Giving, Pirate
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.43, Xist Publishing

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fashion, Clothes, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Law, Giving

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