Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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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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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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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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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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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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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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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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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.