Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
+1The only reward of virtue is virtue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
- 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
+1No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
- 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
+1Every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Our distrust is very expensive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1He is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
- 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
+1When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson