Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson one-man individual men Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power. Ralph Waldo Emerson pride determination art The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe. Ralph Waldo Emerson kitchen finals race I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals. Ralph Waldo Emerson teaching loss school It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. Ralph Waldo Emerson volunteer personality memories The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream. Ralph Waldo Emerson arms fate energy The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Ralph Waldo Emerson has-beens brilliant The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. Ralph Waldo Emerson communication spring moving The unsaid part is the best of every discourse. Ralph Waldo Emerson unsaid discourse What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. Ralph Waldo Emerson sorrow secret feels It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause. Ralph Waldo Emerson teacher mean fall The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well. Ralph Waldo Emerson passion knowing self If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument. Ralph Waldo Emerson party games men A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs. Ralph Waldo Emerson blow sweet men My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better. Ralph Waldo Emerson pens tongue way The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver. Ralph Waldo Emerson sole giver sun I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that youshould. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust thatwhat is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moonwhatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, Iwill love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself byhypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truthwith me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. Ralph Waldo Emerson hurt love-you heart We may be partial, but Fate is not. Ralph Waldo Emerson fate may To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. Ralph Waldo Emerson amplification physicians men There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. Ralph Waldo Emerson leprosy topics complaining
