Waldo Emerson Quotes
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.
"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."
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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.
Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.
As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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
