Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Eye Quotes

The eye is easily frightened.

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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

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Doing well is a result of doing good.

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The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.

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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

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The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

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Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

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This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

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