Waldo Emerson Quotes

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Desire is possibility seeking expression.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

All great men come out of the middle classes.