Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes and Sayings (4)
Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

O Day of days when we can read!
The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,
and that state of the mind can only be described
by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a dollar is social,
as it is created by society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civilized man has built a coach,
but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our admiration of the antique
is not admiration of the old,
but of the natural.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are all foreigners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every spirit makes its house,
and we can give a shrewd guess
from the house to the inhabitant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body;
in the evening, only with his legs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy,
that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every actual State is corrupt.
Good men must not obey laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every book is a quotation;
and every house is a quotation out of all forests,
and mines, and stone quarries;
and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men admire the man who can organize
their wishes and thoughts
in stone and wood and steel and brass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

America is another name for opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing well is the result of doing good.
That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The search after the great men is the dream of youth,
and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle,
gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why the world lacks unity,
and lies broken and in heaps,
is, because man is disunited with himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are a puny and fickle folk.
Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our best thoughts come from others.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In art, the hand can never execute anything
higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a god in ruins.
When men are innocent, life shall be longer,
and shall pass into the immortal,
as gently as we awake from dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of gold is not for gold.
It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth.
It makes all things alive and significant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men's actions are too strong for them.
Show me a man who has acted,
and who has not been the victim
and slave of his action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is also something excellent in every audience,
the capacity of virtue.
They are ready to be beatified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.
He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we tire of the saints,
Shakespeare is our city of refuge.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always safety in valor.
- 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 other circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revolutions go not backward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The believing we do something when we do nothing
is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every burned book enlightens the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are born believing.
A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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