Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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All mankind love a lover.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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I hung my verse in the wind Time and tide their faults will find.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.