Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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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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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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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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Thou animated torrid-zone.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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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 revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.