Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
The true poem is the poet's mind.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
The finest poetry was first experience.
Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
The people are to be taken in very small doses.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless!
