Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I hung my verse in the wind Time and tide their faults will find.
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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'.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
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We boil at different degrees.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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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.
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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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.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
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Coal is a portable climate.