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Road Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
- As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find…
- If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than…
- Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches…
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the…
- Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our…
- If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when…
- To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
- The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who…
- I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
More Road Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather,… — Lance Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long… — Douglas Adams
- Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good… — Travis Barker
- I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in… — Drew Barrymore
- There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get… — Drew Barrymore
- The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. — Sandy Adams
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the… — Charles Baudelaire
- The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick. — L. Frank Baum