Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 5

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man own land the land owns him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is properly no history only biography.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great men come out of the middle classes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Calmness is always Godlike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Be is to live with God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson