Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 5
+1Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Every burned book enlightens the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person’s point of view.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for meters.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Go put your creed into the deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Self trust is the essence of heroism.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conserver at night.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
