Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
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I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.
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There are two laws discrete Not reconciled, Law for man, and law for thing.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - ''Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.'
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Deep in the man sits fast his fate To mould his fortunes, mean or great.
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In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part.
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If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
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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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Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
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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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Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.
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In the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
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The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.