Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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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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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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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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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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Thou animated torrid-zone.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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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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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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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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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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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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There is properly no history; only biography.
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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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I hung my verse in the wind Time and tide their faults will find.
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We boil at different degrees.
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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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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.