Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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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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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
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Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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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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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Ever from one who comes to-morrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow.
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Almost all people descend to meet.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound!
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And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
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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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Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.