Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 14

• Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Parenting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• A friend is the hope of the heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

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• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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• There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Grief, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Family, Trust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.365, Library of America

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• Beauty rests on necessities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

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• Knowledge exists to be imparted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.226, Рипол Классик

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• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Work, Greatness

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• O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Unhappy, Unhappiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.232, Harvard University Press

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• There are always two parties;
  the establishment and the movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Two, Movement

  "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England" (1867)

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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Heart, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Character, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Goes On, Road To Success, Ifs

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• Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crazy, Men, Mad

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.26

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• One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adversity, Firsts, Tasting

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• Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cutting, Alive

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• There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Kind, Trifles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Courage, Ignorance

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• The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Character, Men

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• The force of character is cumulative.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Character, Force

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.502

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• Thou art to me a delicious torment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Art, Romance

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• Every time you wink the stars move.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Stars, Moving

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• Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Ambition, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.140, Penguin

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• Self-command is the main elegance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Self, Elegance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.72

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