Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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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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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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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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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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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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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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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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Every artist was first an amateur.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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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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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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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 is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.