Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Nature hates calculators.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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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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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.