- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.

Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.

Give all to love obey thy heart.

AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.

Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.

To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.

To Be is to live with God.

In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.

The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.

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

Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.

Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

The first wealth is health.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

There is properly no history only biography.

The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.