Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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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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The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
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Announced by all the trumpets of the sky Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.
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Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.
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Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home: Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
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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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Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.
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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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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
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Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
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If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
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In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs, The world uncertain comes and goes; The lover rooted stays.
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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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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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?