--- title: "8 Fixed Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "8 Fixed quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Fixed sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_blow_the-things-we-now-esteem-fixed-shall-one_1556497.png" --- > [The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-things-we-now-esteem-fixed-shall-one-by-one-detach-themselves/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_blow_the-things-we-now-esteem-fixed-shall-one_1556497.png) > [The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-permanence-of-all-books-is-fixed-by-no-effort-friendly-or-hostile/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_book_the-permanence-of-all-books-is-fixed-by_1823583.png) > [Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/genius-detects-through-the-fly-through-the-caterpillar-through-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/700/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_caterpillars_genius-detects-through-the-fly-through-t_2270716.png) > [The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-hard-soil-and-four-months-of-snow-make-the-inhabitants-of-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9f/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_enjoy_the-hard-soil-and-four-months-of-snow-ma_2392515.png) > [An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/an-orchard-good-tillage-good-grounds-seem-a-fixture-like-a-gold-mine/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_change_an-orchard-good-tillage-good-grounds-see_2587155.png) > [Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/where-dwells-the-religion-tell-me-first-where-dwells-electricity-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_dwell_where-dwells-the-religion-tell-me-first_2906190.jpg) > [In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-sculpture-did-ever-anybody-call-the-apollo-a-fancy-piece-or-say-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_apollo_in-sculpture-did-ever-anybody-call-the-a_3044513.png) > [A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-good-intention-but-fixed-and-resolute-bent-on-high-and-holy-ends-we/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_bent_a-good-intention-but-fixed-and-resolute_3232622.jpg) ## Other authors on Fixed ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fixed/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "8 Fixed Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. 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