Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Animal Quotes, Destiny Quotes

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

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Whatever you do, you need courage.

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It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

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Power and speed be hands and feet.

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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

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Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

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