Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Civilization Quotes

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Simplicity Quotes , Culture Quotes

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Being Yourself Quotes , Heart Quotes

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Secret Quotes

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Love Is Quotes

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Angel Quotes , Important Quotes

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Creativity Quotes , Credit Quotes

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Greatness Quotes

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Race Quotes , Liberty Quotes

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dark Quotes

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Heaven Quotes , Half Quotes

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Exaggeration Is Quotes

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Time Quotes , Animal Quotes

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Long Quotes , Use Quotes

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Courage Quotes , Decide Upon Quotes

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Doe Quotes

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Work Quotes , Squirrels Quotes

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Higher Ground Quotes

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Army Quotes , Way Quotes