Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Peace Quotes, Heart Quotes

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

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Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

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To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

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Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

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I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

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To be great, you must be misunderstood

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Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

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In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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