- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.
If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
