Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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What potent blood hath modest May!
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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.