Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 11

• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Skating, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.180, University of Missouri Press

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• A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.16

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• In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America

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• Pride ruined the angels,
  Their shame them restores;
  And the joy that is sweetest
  Lurks in stings of remorse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Pride, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Oratory, Speech, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.340

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• Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Weed, House

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• Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Genius

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• If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Headache

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, University of Georgia Press

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• Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pay, Sincerity, Complement

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• The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Soul, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.57, Library of America

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• The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ties, Secret, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Penguin

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• All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Mistake, Being Single

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.123, Harvard University Press

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• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happy Birthday, Men, Unhappy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.336, Modern Library

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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• there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Sun, Planets

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• 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 interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debt, Usage, Payment

  RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1911). “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION”

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• The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Land, Steps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.561, Harvard University Press

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• In the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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• How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acquaintance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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• Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Preparation, Way

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 55), March 6, 1995.

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• The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.87, University of Missouri Press

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• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Getting Older, Age, Fascination

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