Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Eye Quotes, Giving Quotes

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

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If we live truly, we shall see truly.

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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

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Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

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

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Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

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