Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Combat Quotes

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

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Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

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