Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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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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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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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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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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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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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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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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We are wiser than we know.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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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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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.