Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Answers Quotes

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Waiting Quotes , Age Quotes

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Going Away Quotes , Ashamed Quotes

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Funny Relationship Quotes , Secret Love Quotes

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Wish Quotes

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Flower Quotes , Roots Quotes

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Women Quotes , Clock Quotes

First be a good animal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Animal Quotes

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Hope Quotes

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Motivation Quotes

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Mother Quotes , Spiritual Quotes

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Time Quotes