Best Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations
- Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. Goes
- The victories of character are instant, and victories for all. All
- What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may… Actual
- Greatness once and forever has down with opinion. Down
- For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud… Carry
- Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. All
- Poverty consist in feeling poor. Consist
- The greatest man in history was the poorest. Greatest
- Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. Always Time
- You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.… Cannot Help
- Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist,… All
- Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. Always Right
- Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every… Action
- Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. Adhere
- When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe. Dupe
- The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. Doe
- The great will not condescend to take anything seriously. Anything Seriously
- I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom. Any
- I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent… Absent
- O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Fear
- If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent… Act
- But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. Always Proceeds
- The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles. Age
- Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. Agnosticism
- Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form. Art
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