A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
America is another name for opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Beauty without expression is boring.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
But genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every burned book enlightens the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
God enters by a private door into every individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Power and speed be hands and feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman, repose in energy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The years teach much which the days never knew.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
There is also something excellent in every audience, the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
