Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Heart Quotes, Giving Quotes

Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

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Character teaches above our wills.

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The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

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We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

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Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

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The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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Music and Wine are one.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

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Our distrust is very expensive.

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