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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful, Spring, Passion
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.32, Harvard University Press

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Passion, Expression
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horse, Passion, Games

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

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Self, Knowing
"Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, en.wikisource.org. 1847.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Alive, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.100, Courier Corporation

The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communication, Passion, Men

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Men, Age

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flower, Passion, Bird
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.51, Penguin

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends, Passion, Comedian
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.91

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Overcoming, Resistance
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Native American, Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Appetite, Nationalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.174, Penguin

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, Heart, Sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.156

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Real, Passion
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.122

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful, Spring, Passion
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.419

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