The true ship is the ship builder. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson imagination beautiful beauty Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye exercise fitness Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. Ralph Waldo Emerson pain teaching art I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. Ralph Waldo Emerson rap hate hope I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. Ralph Waldo Emerson hilarious dream motivational Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson loud speak action The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. Ralph Waldo Emerson political party two There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. Ralph Waldo Emerson eggs happiness way Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. Ralph Waldo Emerson reading men book Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time. Ralph Waldo Emerson angry grows time Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour. Ralph Waldo Emerson weed men war Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson party government strong A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. Ralph Waldo Emerson saint pain self Fear is a great instructor. Ralph Waldo Emerson instructors fear The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence. Ralph Waldo Emerson virtue influence teacher The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. Ralph Waldo Emerson moss doctrine god Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies. Ralph Waldo Emerson simple worry men We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations. Ralph Waldo Emerson arms book children Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong Ralph Waldo Emerson dollars giving men The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams. Ralph Waldo Emerson god mean years
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