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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Inspiration, Opportunity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Prosperity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2650, Delphi Classics

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Inspiration, Inspire
"The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Passion, Writing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.58, Harvard University Press

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Character, Mean

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Inspiration, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Inspiration, Intelligent
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Graphic Arts Books

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Inspiration, Sunshine
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.162

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Giving, Ridiculous
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1070, Delphi Classics

To be great is to be misunderstood.

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

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Men, Love Is
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.63, Harvard University Press

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, Inspiration, Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2507, Delphi Classics

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Law, Insult
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.338, Рипол Классик

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Inspiration, Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.83, Harvard University Press

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Few Words, Enormous
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.41, Editora Dracaena

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Believe, Inspiration
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Light, Skills
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1378, Delphi Classics

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Inspiration, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1299, Delphi Classics

As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Men, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4265, Delphi Classics

Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Creativity, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Рипол Классик

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration, Advice, Doubt

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