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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
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| "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
"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.They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| "I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
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| "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A field cannot well be seen from within the field. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| A friend is the hope of the heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| A good intention clothes itself with power Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A good intention clothes itself with power. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A great man is always willing to be little. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| A little integrity is better than any career Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A man is a God in ruins. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A man is what he thinks about all day long. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely, but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.from "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| A strenuous soul hates cheap success. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Accept your genius and say what you think. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| All diseases run into one, old age. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| All life is an experiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| All promise outruns performance. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| All the great speakers were bad speakers at first Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| America is another name for opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Art is the path of the creator to his work Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| As we grow old…the beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Beauty without expression is boring. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Blame is safer than praise Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature,—here they are, side by side, god and devil, mind and matter, king and conspirator, belt and spasm, riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Character is higher than intellect. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Character is what can do without success. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Children are all foreigners. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Civilization depends on morality. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Courage consists in the power of self-recovery. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Difficulties exist to be surmounted Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Do what we can, summer will have its flies. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Do what you are afraid to do Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Envy is ignorance. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Every burned book enlightens the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Every man believes that he has a greater possibility Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every man I meet is in some way my superior. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every noble activity makes room for itself Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Every wall is a door. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Fame is proof that people are gullible Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Fame is proof that people are gullible. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Fame is proof that the people are gullible. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Fear always springs from ignorance Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely... Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Flowers are the earth laughing. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| For each thorn, there's a rosebud... for each twilight — a dawn... for each trial — the strength to carry on, For each stormcloud — a rainbow... for each shadow — the sun... for each parting — sweet memories when sorrow is done. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| For there is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Friendship demands the ability to do without it. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Go put your creed into your deed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Go where he will, the wise man is at home. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| God enters by a private door into each individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| God enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Good men must not obey the laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| He serves all who dares be true. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual’s character. Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him, for every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else. Therefore just and wise men take umbrage at his act, until after some little time be past: then they see it to be in unison with their acts. All prudent men see that the action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. It is the state of the soul at war, and its ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents. It speaks the truth and it is just. It is generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations and scornful of being scorned. It persists; it is of an undaunted boldness and of a fortitude not to be wearied out. Its jest is the littleness of common life. That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the foil, the butt and merriment of heroism. Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost ashamed of its body. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 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 |
| History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| How much of human life is lost in waiting. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please. I cannot go back to toys. I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live without elegance: but a countryman shall be my master of revels. He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man. Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I can find my biography in every fable that I read. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I hate quotations. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| 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 |
| I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilaration, and refine us like that; and, in memorable experiences, they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by fine perception, the acquaintance with real beauty. They must always show self-control: you shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky, but king over your word; and every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest. Then they must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose... Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sayings |
| I see my trees repair their boughs Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations |
| If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. Ralph Waldo Emerson Popular Quotes |
| If 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 Popular Quotes |
| If 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 Quotes |
| If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. Ralph Waldo Emerson Remarks |
| If the red slayer thinks he slays, / Or if the slain think he is slain, / They know not well the subtle ways / I keep, and pass, and turn again. Ralph Waldo Emerson Adages |
| If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| If the stars should appear but one night every thousand ye |
