Best Ralph Waldo Emerson Words
- Culture opens the sense of beauty. Beauty
- Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries. Beauty
- A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad. All
- A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts. Art
- Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm. Any
- A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. Blame
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred… Actually Read
- We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. Book
- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… Bad
- One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. Critical
- Every man is an impossibility until he is born. Born
- Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. Bring
- For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. Apt
- The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. Character
- Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. Badge
- A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a… Angle
- I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward… Admiring
- Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind. All
- Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound… Better
- Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which… Base
- Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of… Day
- The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. Amidst
- Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Aimed
- The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. Bad
- To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism. Believe
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