- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

New York is a sucked orange.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

It is one soul which animates all men.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

The key to every man is his thought.

Blame is safer than praise

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

Some people are born very far from home.

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

Our distrust is very expensive.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.