- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged from the beginning of the world that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.
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.
Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
My evening visitors if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.
A man is a method a progressive arrangement a selecting principle gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
