Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist. He has very inspiring sayings and quotes which motivates everyone. here are some selected quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes is made from the various sources. they are here to get you inspired. it's worth to read these quotes.
The collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes is made from the various sources. they are here to get you inspired. it's worth to read these quotes.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes |
"Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"A friend is the hope of the heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely that which all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for every thing they give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The key to every man is his thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Revolutions go not backward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Each moment of the year has its own beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Character is that which can do without success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
"All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes"
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