Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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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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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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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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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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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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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.