Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Strength Quotes

Cunning is strength withheld.

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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

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A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

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Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

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The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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