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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Expression, Moral

Life too near paralyses art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Art, Paralysis
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.273, Harvard University Press

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Change, Joy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Skills
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2320, Delphi Classics

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Sleep, Night
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.54, Harvard University Press

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Spiritual, Long

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Transition, Spirit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Eight
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.5, Harvard University Press

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Beautiful, Art

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Success, Self

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Real, Glasses
"The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.377, Harvard University Press

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Carpe Diem, Law Of Attraction
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.1, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Ideas, Orbit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.1

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Memorable, Imagination
"The Conduct of Life".

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Justice, Diversity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.8, Harvard University Press

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Nature, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Strength, Best Husband

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Men, Discovery

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, People, Intellectual
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Intelligent, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.434

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Positive, Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Art, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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