Waldo Emerson Quotes
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
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
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
"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."
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.
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.
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.
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.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.
