The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household. Ralph Waldo Emerson pulse feet men I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life. Ralph Waldo Emerson vices men thinking The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life. Ralph Waldo Emerson power doors school If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house. Ralph Waldo Emerson fashion money eye In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt. Ralph Waldo Emerson stars spiritual night The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God. Ralph Waldo Emerson population progress animal It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself. Ralph Waldo Emerson vain secret knows The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there. Ralph Waldo Emerson spring lying moving The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again. Ralph Waldo Emerson friends sea men There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. Ralph Waldo Emerson self mind men The inmost in due time becomes the outmost. Ralph Waldo Emerson dues self time A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson humility self men Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand. Ralph Waldo Emerson effort self hands I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. Ralph Waldo Emerson mould self world Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. Ralph Waldo Emerson pride men thinking Pride ruined the angels, Ralph Waldo Emerson angel pride joy Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year. Ralph Waldo Emerson husband pride humility Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving. Ralph Waldo Emerson horse selfish pride He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming. Ralph Waldo Emerson good-man sorry men We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it. Ralph Waldo Emerson forgiving hate hands
