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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Consciousness, Good Company
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.48, Coyote Canyon Press

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Religion, Withdrawal
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, Soul, Persons

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Would Be, Duration
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Soul, Pilots
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.90

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Soul, Youth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Library of America

But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Encounters, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.315, Library of America

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Needs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.502, Columbia University Press

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Reform, Way
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.57, Coyote Canyon Press

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Heaven, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.429

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Universe
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.30, Harvard University Press

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, Soul, Vigor

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride, Men, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.86, Harvard University Press

The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two, Understanding, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.118, Modern Library

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus, Soul, Conquer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.25

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Soul, Immortality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Past, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Depth, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Miracle, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Expression, Soul, Individuality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Soul, Growth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1391, Delphi Classics

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, Law, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.381

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Immortality, Wells
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Events, Robes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.58, Coyote Canyon Press

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Soul, Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.102, Coyote Canyon Press

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