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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

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever work is done, victory is attained. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

thought can never ripen into truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What will you have? quoth God; pay for it, and take it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moderation in all things, especially moderation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build therefore your own world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. — 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

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Society has no bribe for me ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Men consort in camp and town
But the poet dwells alone. — 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

Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only to youth will spring be spring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion. — 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

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

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

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. — 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

Great men are sincere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

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

Music is the poor man's Parnassus. — 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

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is the hope of the heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will learn from everyone and be no one's disciple. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. — 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

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. — 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

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;
Our valors are our best gods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know that madness belongs to love,
what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson