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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel, Greatness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.227, Jazzybee Verlag

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Class, Skulls
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.352

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Greatness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.3

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1550, Delphi Classics

Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Makeup, Greatness, Expression

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Greatness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.1

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Luxury, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Society and solitude”

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Greatness, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.136, University of Georgia Press

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Congratulations, Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.401

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Inspiration, Greatness
Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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'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

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence, Greatness, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1098, 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

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

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Greatness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “Miscellanies, embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.19

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, And Love, Levity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus, Eye, Greatness

Great men are sincere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Sincere
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.107, Рипол Классик

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

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

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Greatness, Forever

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Distance, Greatness, Average
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Unique
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.39

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, Men, Events
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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