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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson