Waldo Emerson Quotes

Love is the essence of God.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

You cannot see the mountain near.

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

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Men are what their mothers made them.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

A man is known by the books he reads.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

What you are comes to you.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

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

As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.