Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as 'spiritual life,' 'God,' 'soul,' 'cross,' etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
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I think no virtue goes with size; The reason of all cowardice Is, that men are overgrown, And, to be valiant, must come down To the titmouse dimension.
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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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The soul is subject to dollars.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
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It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
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Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By the stairway of surprise.
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The first wealth is health.
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.
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I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.