Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes wellâhe has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
All diseases run into one, old age.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
