Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Real Quotes, Men Quotes

To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Men Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Positive Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Mind Quotes , Disease Quotes

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Running Quotes , Determination Quotes

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Past Quotes

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Perseverance Quotes

A little praise goes a great ways.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Appreciation Quotes , Littles Quotes

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Father Quotes , Writing Quotes

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Truth Quotes , Moving Quotes

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Nature Quotes

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Apples Quotes

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Power Quotes

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Children Quotes

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Law Quotes

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Reliance Quotes , Knows Quotes

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Way Quotes , Manners Quotes

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Law Quotes

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Illumination Quotes