Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 4
+1Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Do what we can summer will have its flies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. by Ralph Waldo Emerson.I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a gold smit’s.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The Earth Laughs in Flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1When a man says to me, “I have the intensest love of nature,” at once I know that he has none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Nor know est thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor’s creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
