Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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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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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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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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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.