Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
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Deep in the man sits fast his fate To mould his fortunes, mean or great.
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Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
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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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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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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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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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Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
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Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.
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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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In the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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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 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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There are two laws discrete Not reconciled, Law for man, and law for thing.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.