God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: inspirational individualism
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: world opinions character beliefs
Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark
Ralph Waldo EmersonFinish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSolitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions. "In the morning, — solitude;" said Pythagoras; that Nature may speak to the imagination, as she does never in company, and that her favorite may make acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought. 'Tis very certain that Plato, Plotinus, Archimedes, Hermes, Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as benefactors: and the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: education learning solitude genius
That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
Ralph Waldo EmersonHis hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;
Our valors are our best gods.
Tags: inspirational
There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are
And it cometh everywhere.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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