Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a sweet climate by my breath, Washing out harms and griefs from memory, And, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwritingâ a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson,
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
