Ralph Waldo EmersonIt seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and li… ▶371PhilosophyTime
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe years teach much which the days never know. ✨ 'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'371Life
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhy has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from th… ▶371HumorPoliticsReading
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barba… ▶371Life
Ralph Waldo EmersonAccept your genius and say what you think. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). The Collected Works… ▶371Thought
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). The Selected Works of Ralph Wal… ▶371Reading
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.371Thought
Ralph Waldo EmersonA man often pays dear for a small frugality. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.295, Library of America372Reflection
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). Self-Relia… ▶372Love
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.290, Harvard University Press372LoveTime
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint … ▶372HumanityPoliticsSadness
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Em… ▶372Humanity
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.18, Рипол Классик372Sadness
Ralph Waldo EmersonAstronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.421, Penguin372Sadness
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design. 372LifeTime
Ralph Waldo EmersonA man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.387, Library of America372Philosophy
Ralph Waldo EmersonGreat men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). Emerson's Literary Criticism, p.163, U of Nebraska Press372Humor
Ralph Waldo EmersonHere is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of… ▶361Thought
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars361Humanity
Ralph Waldo EmersonIndeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). Nature, p.17361Death
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. Eng… ▶372LifeTime
Ralph Waldo EmersonProportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871,… ▶373Humanity
Ralph Waldo EmersonThings have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). The Annotated Emerson, p.252, Harvard University Pre… ▶351Politics
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.351Humor
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery wall is a door.373Reflection
Ralph Waldo EmersonGreat men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Wa… ▶351Thought
Ralph Waldo EmersonGenius is power, talent is applicability. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.136, University of Mi… ▶351PoliticsReading
Ralph Waldo EmersonI suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it the… ▶351LifeReading
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journals, December 20, 1822.362Thought
Ralph Waldo EmersonA collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and ca… ▶373Reading
