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“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”

1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Civilization

“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.”

Letters and Social Aims, Quotation and Originality
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared "that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow."”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Aims 1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)

“Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" First Visit to England http://www.emersoncentral.com/first_visit_england.htm" in English Traits http://www.emersoncentral.com/english.htm (1856)

“For nature beats in perfect tune,
And rounds with rhyme her every rune,
Whether she work in land or sea,
Or hide underground her alchemy.
Thou canst not wave thy staff in air,
Or dip thy paddle in the lake,
But it carves the bow of beauty there,
And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Woonotes II, st. 7
1840s, Poems (1847)

“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Divinity College Address (1838)

“I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

February 1855
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

“Nor mourn the unalterable Days
That Genius goes and Folly stays.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Memoriam E.B.E. http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20607&c=323, st. 9 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The world is his, who has money to go over it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as “spiritual life,” “God,” “soul,” “cross,” etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

June 15, 1844
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

“Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Terminus
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)

“In the vaunted works of Art
The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: In the vaunted works of Art
The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.

“Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar 1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837) Variant: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.

“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 4, Language

“Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walter Savage Landor http://www.emersoncentral.com/walter_savage_landor.htm, from The Dial, XII (1841)

“Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused; when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), New England Reformers