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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are! (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
No performance is worth loss of geniality. ‘Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Savages cling to a local God of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)