Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,
a long way leading nowhere.
a long way leading nowhere.
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.
I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike ...
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
In God, every end is converted into a new means. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
Every thought is public,
Every nook is wide;
Thy gossips spread each whisper,
And the gods from side to side.
Every nook is wide;
Thy gossips spread each whisper,
And the gods from side to side.
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
A man is a god in ruins.When men are innocent,life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
Conversation is our account of ourselves ... Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts ... It is the laboratory of the student.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.