Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Prayer Quotes

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

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Pride ruined the angels.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

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She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

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When half-gods go The gods arrive.

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Fear is cruel and mean.

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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

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Conversation is a game of circles.

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Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

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