Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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Each the herald is who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate.
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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.
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England’s genius filled all measure Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure, Gave to the mind its emperor, And life was larger than before: Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.
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The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
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And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone.
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.
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And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, 'All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile.'
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.