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Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Heart, Keys
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.309, Jazzybee Verlag

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.110, Coyote Canyon Press

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Heart, Loss
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.305, Library of America

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Heart, College
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Modern Library

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Hope, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Numbers, Discipline

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cheer, Heart, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christian, Heart, Office
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Hero, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.315, Harvard University Press

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.134, Harvard University Press

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sarcastic, Heart, Broken
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.68

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Achievement, Victory

To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Mean, Wicked
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.450

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Science, Microscopes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.108, Courier Corporation

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Plato, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. 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, Men, Garden
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.205

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Men, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.13

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Heart, Imbibing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.477, ReadHowYouWant.com

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Dozen, Pages
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.41, Harvard University Press

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Eye, Heart
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

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

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

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Heart, Cake
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.562

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.259, Library of America

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