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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ice Cream, House, Dessert
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.133, Рипол Классик

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Wish, Chemicals
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.7, Harvard University Press

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Heaven, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Weed, House

The house praises the carpenter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Achievement, Praise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.283, Harvard University Press

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Home, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.93, Harvard University Press

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, House, Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.79, Courier Corporation

With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Air, House, Inspire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.180, Bantam Classics

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lying, House, Society
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giving, House, Spirit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.110, Courier Corporation

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, House, Shelter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1341, Delphi Classics

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, House, Tasks
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Rebel, Republic
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.97, Harvard University Press

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Fire, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2454, Delphi Classics

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cousin, Writing, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.635, Library of America

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Speak, Paint
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.45, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light, House, Shining
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Men, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.336, Harvard University Press

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Adversity, House

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, House, He Man
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.105, U of Nebraska Press

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.433, Modern Library

For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government, House, Brave
Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Essays”

It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
College, House, Waiting

Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
House, Enemy, Devil
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Men, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin

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