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God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please
you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect] — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build therefore your own world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live, let live, and help live — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are, comes to you. — R.W. Emerson

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. - — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson