Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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We are wiser than we know.