Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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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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We are wiser than we know.
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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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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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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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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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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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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.