A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Calmness is always godlike. Ralph Waldo Emerson godlikecalmnesscalm Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. Ralph Waldo Emerson selfhelpingmen Society does not love its unmaskers. Ralph Waldo Emerson societydoe Truth is the summit of being. Ralph Waldo Emerson summittruth-istruth Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events. Ralph Waldo Emerson fatemenlying There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatnesssharehands The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction. Ralph Waldo Emerson notablestrongsex At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her. Ralph Waldo Emerson herowisefall Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated. Ralph Waldo Emerson humilitypracticeart He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is. Ralph Waldo Emerson homebookthinking The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Ralph Waldo Emerson saplawmen Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning. Ralph Waldo Emerson saintnaturedrinking As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay. Ralph Waldo Emerson gayeyebeautiful It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march. Ralph Waldo Emerson circlesplatoart Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. Ralph Waldo Emerson babyfunnychildren Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? Ralph Waldo Emerson savageselementsnature If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground. Ralph Waldo Emerson lift-me-uphigher-groundlifts Spring still makes spring in the mind Ralph Waldo Emerson summerheartspring The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson abusegovernmentcharacter Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. Ralph Waldo Emerson hundredworryyears
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