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God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please
you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect] — Ralph Waldo Emerson
you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect] — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time.
— Ellen Emerson White
Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What will you have? quoth God; pay for it, and take it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moderation in all things, especially moderation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build therefore your own world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live, let live, and help live
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here's to losing Emerson, and finding Em again! I raised the shot glass in the air.
— Kimberly Lauren
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;
Our valors are our best gods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our valors are our best gods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men consort in camp and town
But the poet dwells alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the poet dwells alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always take a job that is too big for you.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society has no bribe for me ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.
— Michael Emerson
Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the engine of success..
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is the hope of the heart.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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— Marcus Emerson
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too.
— Noel Alumit
I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.
— Gloria Emerson
Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know that madness belongs to love,
what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will learn from everyone and be no one's disciple.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are the soul of comedy, Mrs. Emerson.
— Sylvain Reynard
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my last night here, and I suddenly feel quite tearful, sitting up in my usual window.
— Ellen Emerson White
The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Noah held my hair away from my face.
— Katie McGarry