Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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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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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.