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“A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series

World , Flowers

“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Behaviour
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Divinity College Address (1838)

“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson English Traits

English Traits, Race
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Feeling , Boy , Reading

“Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else, or of some other person. Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else; it takes place of the whole creation. The man must be so much, that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man … and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Age , History , Reality , Time

“Music is the poor man's Parnassus.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry and Imagination
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)

Music

“A nation never falls but by suicide.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series

Suicide

“Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Brahma

Brahma, st. 2
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)

God , Appearance

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Friendship , For Friend , Nature

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

World , Memory , Heart

“The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Comic
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)

Men

“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience

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

Wisdom , Fools

“In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Goethe; or, the Writer,” pp. 271-272
1850s, Representative Men (1850)

Lie , Appearance

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Comic
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)

Learning

“But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make up a year,
And a sphere.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fable http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/fable.htm
1840s, Poems (1847)

Weather

“Every man is a new method.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Natural History of Intellect (1893)

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies: if we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitos: if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841)

Fish , Summer

“To live without duties is obscene.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aristocracy
1880s, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

“The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Star