• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes   4214
  • As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Wine Quotes
  • It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Night Quotes
  • Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Men Quotes
  • In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Stars Quotes
  • There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes