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“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Variant: To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

“If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson The Rhodora

The Rhodora
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Prudence

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Nature and Selected Essays

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love what is simple and beautiful.
These are the essentials.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Tao of Emerson the Tao of Emerson

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Variant: That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: 1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance

“Common sense is as rare as genius.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson