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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Created
#Dollar
#Social
#Society
#Value
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Action
#Man
#Me
#Men
#Strong
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#God
#Ideas
#Premature
#Screens
#Us
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Doing
#I Am
#Know
#Life
#People
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Man
#Men
#Steel
#Stone
#Thoughts
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Animal
#Nature
#Palace
#Rude
#White
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Need
#One Word
#Suffice
#Why
#Word
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Man
#Priest
#Scholar
#Soldier
#Statesman
There is always safety in valor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Always
#Safety
#Valor
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Fine
#Manners
#Need
#Others
#Support
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Giving
#Hand
#Hate
#Man
#Whole
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Beauty
#Heart
#Man
#Mind
#Sweet
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Always
#Blessed
#Mean
#Men
#Ugly
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Beauty
#Been
#Gift
#Seldom
#Which
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Men
#Mud
#Reason
#See
#Why
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Appearance
#Find
#Game
#Morals
#Two
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Difference
#More
#Pleasures
#Quality
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Boy
#Give
#He
#Mastery
#Where
I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Am
#Faculties
#Lost
#Mental
#Well
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Aim
#Experiment
#Selfish
#Sensual
#Will
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Expression
#Life
#Moral
#Preaching
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Intuition
#Perfection
#Soul
#Space
#Time
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Me
#Mine
#Possession
#Time
#Who
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Clean
#Day
#Every Day
#Man
#Self-Respect
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Corn
#Day
#Live
#Love
#Nature
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Encyclopedia
#Facts
#Man
#Whole
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Another
#Dream
#Illusion
#Many
#Pillows
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Delight
#Fields
#Greatest
#Which
#Woods
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Friendship
#Good
#Immortality
#Soul
#Too
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Hope
#Life
#Men
#Truth
#Waiting
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Been
#Had
#How
#Quarrel
#Wish
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Appreciated
#Every Man
#Man
#Understood
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Line
#Reading
#Sense
#Sentence
#Writing
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
#Circumstances
#Good
#Men
#Passion
#Well
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Being
#Secret
#The Secret Of
#Ugliness
What is a farm but a mute gospel?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Farm
#Gospel
#Mute
Revolutions go not backward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Backward
#Go
#Revolutions
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Day
#Life
#Mind
#Us
#Which
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Creative
#Reading
#Well
#Writing
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Every
#Give
#Guess
#House
#Spirit
Without electricity, the air would rot.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Air
#Electricity
#Rot
#Without
#Would
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Alike
#Evil
#Institutions
#Our
#Wave
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Great
#Men
#Search
#Serious
#Youth
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Character
#Speak
#Stone
#Walls
#Will
Children are all foreigners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Children
#Foreigners
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Events
#Forces
#Great
#Secret
#Send
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Every Man
#Faults
#Lifetime
#Man
#Needs
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Alone
#Beauty
#History
#Man
#Soul
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Goodness
#Root
#Wisdom
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Ever
#Learning
#Man
#Something
#Without
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Hates
#Nature
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Explain
#Principle
#Things
#Value
#Will
Life is our dictionary.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Dictionary
#Life
#Our
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
#Cannot
#Desire
#Heart
#Nothing
#Said
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Every
#Fact
#Natural Science
#Science
#Somebody
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Ancestors
#Book
#House
#Man
#Stone
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Right
#Tendency
#Themselves
#Things
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Everyone
#Glorious
#Like
#People
#Show
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Every
#Fact
#Natural
#Some
#Spiritual
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Find
#Great Men
#Great
#Men
#Never
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Cannot
#Fame
#Martyr
#Prison
#Tongue
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Face
#God
#Know
#Nature
#See
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Good
#Heaven
#Hell
#Own
#Seek
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Better
#Church
#Like
#Preaching
#Service
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Cannot
#Choice
#Mind
#Must
#Truth
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Best
#Effort
#Fine
#Person
#Presence
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Doctrine
#Lectures
#Man
#Private
#Taught
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Days
#Events
#Imports
#Moment
#Quality
Every burned book enlightens the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Book
#Burned
#Enlightens
#Every
#World
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Inhabit
#Symbols
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Easy
#Find
#Great
#Never
#People
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Constitution
#Consumer
#Man
#Needs
#Rich
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Bankruptcy
#More
#Pay
#Said
#World
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Age
#Generation
#Must
#Next
#Own
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Better
#Door
#Man
#Path
#World
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Diseases
#Fickle
#Folk
#Hesitation
#Our
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Learners
#Nature
#Our
#Permanent
#State
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Anarchy
#Chance
#God
#Sitting
#System
#Universe
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Ground
#Lift
#Me
#Must
#Up
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Biographies
#Geniuses
#Great
#Shortest
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Done
#Genius
#Nature
#She
#Work
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Art
#Men
#Nature
#Soul
#Universe
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Anything
#Self
#Serve
#Them
#Wants
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#About
#Illusion
#Meet
#Optical
#Person
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Beautiful
#Help
#Life
#Try
#Without
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Death
#Good
#Life
#Man
#Positive
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Beast
#Forest
#Man
#Still
#Tongue
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Know
#More
#Ourselves
#Same
#Time
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Lost
#Never
#Time
#Wisdom
#Work
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Flower
#Life
#Live
#Maturity
#Plant
We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Europe
#Listened
#Long
#Muses
#Too
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Alive
#Passion
#Things
#World
#Youth
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Book
#Day
#Days
#Read
#Without
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Benefit
#Every
#Levied
#Receive
#Tax
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Beauty
#Grow
#Inward
#Old
#Steals
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Get
#Getting Old
#Getting
#Old
#Want
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Freedom
#Get
#I Think
#Must
#Think
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Because
#Courage
#Every Man
#He
#Man
#Own
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#Analyze
#Could
#Method
#Nature
#Who
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
#You
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