Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
The louder he talks of honour, the faster we count our spoons.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Is not every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
The wise through excessive wisdom is made a fool.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
