Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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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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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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Thou animated torrid-zone.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
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Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, - mettle and bottom.
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We boil at different degrees.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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I hung my verse in the wind Time and tide their faults will find.
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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There is properly no history; only biography.