Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
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“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We acquire the strength we have overcome.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Power and speed be hands and feet.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Money often costs too much.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Men are what their mothers made them.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The first wealth is health.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The first wealth is health.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The years teach much which the days never know.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All diseases run into one, old age. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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