Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 7

• What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Carpe Diem, Half

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• Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, God, Angel

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.456, Library of America

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• We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Silence, Soul

  "Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity".

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• When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Beautiful, Eye

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• All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Keys, Criminal Mind, Riddle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

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• The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opposites, Different, Crowds

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• Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Silence, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.426, Library of America

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• The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Yield

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

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• Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Soul, Pilots

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.90

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• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Blow, Light

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• Self trust is the essence of heroism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Running, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Teach, My Friends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.102, The Floating Press

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• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Balance, Easy

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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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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Greatness, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journals, December 20, 1822.

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• The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Powerful, Teaching

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• The world exists for the education of each man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.7

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• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Keys, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Medicine, Poison

  The Conduct of Life Ch. 7

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• Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Society, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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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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• 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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• 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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