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.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thebig-a)
See the power of national emblems. Some stars, lilies, leopards, a crescent, a lion, an eagle, or other figure which came into credit God knows how, on an old rag of bunting, blowing in the wind on a fort at the ends of the earth, shall make the blood tingle under the rudest or the most conventional exterior. The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics!
—Emerson, Essays: Second Series, The Poet (via the-transcendental)
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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
—Emerson (via notanothersongaboutyou)
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via exemplar1)
I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via whatisworthlivingfor)
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Tis a great thing to fall in love with!
Man hopes; genius creates.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via be-do-have)
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Life is a festival only to the wise.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via quotationsblog)
Oct. 21, 1837: Diary Excerpt, Ralph Waldo Emerson
I said when I awoke, After some more sleepings & wakings I shall lie on this mattress sick; then, dead; and through my gay entry they will carry these bones. Where shall I be then? I lifted my head and beheld the spotless orange light of the morning beaming up from the dark hills into the wide universe.
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via iwanttocatchastar)
