Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Lines Quotes

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

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There are some men above grief and some men below it.

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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

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Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

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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.

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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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