Passion Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson