--- title: "25 Lines Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "25 Lines quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Lines sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_found_line-in-nature-is-not-found-unit-and-uni_3179362.png" --- > [Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/line-in-nature-is-not-found-unit-and-universe-are-round/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_found_line-in-nature-is-not-found-unit-and-uni_3179362.png) > [We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-resent-all-criticism-which-denies-us-anything-that-lies-in-our/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e48/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_criticism_we-resent-all-criticism-which-denies-us_247080.png) > [The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-line-of-beauty-is-the-line-of-perfect-economy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_the-line-of-beauty-is-the-line-of-perfec_3130690.png) > [The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag-line-of-a-hundred-tacks/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/746/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_hundred_the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag_320444.png) > [Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/everything-in-the-universe-goes-by-indirection-there-are-no-straight/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bf/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_inspirational_everything-in-the-universe-goes-by-indir_2729278.png) > [The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-sower-may-mistake-and-sow-his-peas-crookedly-the-peas-make-no/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/472/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_come-up_the-sower-may-mistake-and-sow-his-peas-c_2727057.png) > [A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-is-a-golden-impossibility-the-line-he-must-walk-is-a-hair-s/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_breadth_a-man-is-a-golden-impossibility-the-line_1798800.png) > [The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag-line-of-a-hundred-tacks-see/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d85/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_average_the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag_2113478.jpg) > [Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-the-reader-find-that-he-cannot-afford-to-omit-any-line-of-your/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_books_let-the-reader-find-that-he-cannot-affor_933513.png) > [Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/draw-if-thou-canst-the-mystic-line-severing-rightly-his-from-thine/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/266/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_divine_draw-if-thou-canst-the-mystic-line-sever_2827279.png) > [Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/few-people-have-any-next-they-live-from-hand-to-mouth-without-a-plan/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae5/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_decision_few-people-have-any-next-they-live-from_2009042.png) > [We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-pass-for-what-we-are-character-teaches-above-our-wills-men-imagine/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/096/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_we-pass-for-what-we-are-character-teache_104166.jpg) > [If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-you-meet-a-sectary-or-a-hostile-partisan-never-recognize-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c4/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_air_if-you-meet-a-sectary-or-a-hostile-parti_1920834.jpg) > [I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-the-lover-of-uncontained-and-immortal-beauty-in-the-wilderness-i/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beautiful_i-am-the-lover-of-uncontained-and-immort_361108.png) > [Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/expediency-of-literature-reason-of-literature-lawfulness-of-writing/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_add_expediency-of-literature-reason-of-liter_1649473.jpg) > [But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/but-only-that-soul-can-be-my-friend-which-i-encounter-on-the-line-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f7/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_celestial_but-only-that-soul-can-be-my-friend-whic_2654989.jpg) > [Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/next-to-the-originator-of-a-good-sentence-is-the-first-quoter-of-it/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_book_next-to-the-originator-of-a-good-sentenc_880939.png) > [The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag-line-of-a-hundred-tacks-see-2/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a7/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag_2448516.jpg) > [All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/all-great-masters-are-chiefly-distinguished-by-the-power-of-adding-a/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_commitment_all-great-masters-are-chiefly-distinguis_2540581.jpg) > [The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-crime-which-bankrupts-men-and-states-is-job-work-declining-from/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b81/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_crime_the-crime-which-bankrupts-men-and-states_600201.jpg) > [Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-spirit-builds-itself-a-house-and-beyond-its-house-a-world-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_acres_every-spirit-builds-itself-a-house-and-b_836186.png) > [The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-moment-our-discourse-rises-above-the-ground-line-of-familiar/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a13/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_the-moment-our-discourse-rises-above-the_1128901.png) > [There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-will-be-an-agreement-in-whatever-variety-of-actions-so-they-be/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_there-will-be-an-agreement-in-whatever-v_1411674.jpg) > [I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-read-the-other-day-some-verses-written-by-an-eminent-painter-which/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f20/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_admonition_i-read-the-other-day-some-verses-written_764919.png) > [In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-the-order-of-nature-we-cannot-render-benefits-to-those-from-whom/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_benefits_in-the-order-of-nature-we-cannot-render_184820.jpg) ## Other authors on Lines ## 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/lines/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "25 Lines Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/line-in-nature-is-not-found-unit-and-universe-are-round/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_found_line-in-nature-is-not-found-unit-and-uni_3179362.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_found_line-in-nature-is-not-found-unit-and-uni_3179362.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_found_line-in-nature-is-not-found-unit-and-uni_3179362.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-resent-all-criticism-which-denies-us-anything-that-lies-in-our/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e48/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_criticism_we-resent-all-criticism-which-denies-us_247080.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e48/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_criticism_we-resent-all-criticism-which-denies-us_247080.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e48/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_criticism_we-resent-all-criticism-which-denies-us_247080.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-line-of-beauty-is-the-line-of-perfect-economy/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_the-line-of-beauty-is-the-line-of-perfec_3130690.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_the-line-of-beauty-is-the-line-of-perfec_3130690.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_the-line-of-beauty-is-the-line-of-perfec_3130690.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag-line-of-a-hundred-tacks/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/746/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_hundred_the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag_320444.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/746/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_hundred_the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag_320444.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/746/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_hundred_the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag_320444.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Everything in the universe goes by indirection. 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