Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 2
+1What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The good rain, like the bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1It is one of the beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The virtue in most request is conformity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The only reward of virtue is virtue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Envy is ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Self command is the main elegance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The reality is more excellent than the report.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
