Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Hypocrite Quotes

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

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A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

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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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If the race is good, so is the place.

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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

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Friendship buys friendship.

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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

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Your work should be in praise of what you love.

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