Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
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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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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere.
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Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
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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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A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
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And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
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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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Blessed are those who have no talent!
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The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
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For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.
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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 most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
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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.
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Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.