Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Calmness is always godlike. Ralph Waldo Emerson godlike calmness calm Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. Ralph Waldo Emerson self helping men Society does not love its unmaskers. Ralph Waldo Emerson society doe Truth is the summit of being. Ralph Waldo Emerson summit truth-is truth 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 fate men lying 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 greatness share hands 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 notable strong sex 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 hero wise fall Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated. Ralph Waldo Emerson humility practice art 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 home book thinking 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 sap law men Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning. Ralph Waldo Emerson saint nature drinking 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 gay eye beautiful 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 circles plato art 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 baby funny children Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? Ralph Waldo Emerson savages elements nature If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground. Ralph Waldo Emerson lift-me-up higher-ground lifts Spring still makes spring in the mind Ralph Waldo Emerson summer heart spring The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson abuse government character Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. Ralph Waldo Emerson hundred worry years
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