Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate. Ralph Waldo Emerson individual party history History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson action two history A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson horse hypocrisy men The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson chiefs facts knowledge The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man. Ralph Waldo Emerson spirit men knowledge Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern. Ralph Waldo Emerson unseen simple law There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. Ralph Waldo Emerson imagination law exercise A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill. Ralph Waldo Emerson skills men life The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living. Ralph Waldo Emerson sleep night life Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. Ralph Waldo Emerson courtesy ambitious youth There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson yield energy law Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. Ralph Waldo Emerson independence unions kindness Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Ralph Waldo Emerson wedding marriage love Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call. Ralph Waldo Emerson mankind talent men The populace drags down the gods to their own level. Ralph Waldo Emerson drag mankind levels A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. Ralph Waldo Emerson ends wise men Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. Ralph Waldo Emerson metaphysical misfits men The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson sarcastic broken heart A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know. Ralph Waldo Emerson home men looks Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. Ralph Waldo Emerson reform opinion age
