Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Power Quotes, Joy Quotes

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Two Quotes , Soul Quotes

The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Our moods do not believe in each other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Mood Quotes

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Country Quotes , Home Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Time Quotes , Carpe Diem Quotes

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Happy Friday Quotes , Men Quotes

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Night Quotes

Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Ubiquity Quotes , Forever Quotes

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Religious Quotes , Saint Quotes

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Snow Quotes

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Women Quotes

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

All history is biography.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dream Quotes , World Quotes