Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Mark Quotes, Aim Quotes

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

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A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

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It is defeat which educates us.

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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

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A man should carry nature in his head.

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The life of truth is cold.

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[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

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