Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, School Quotes

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , School Quotes

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Future Quotes

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Things Change Quotes , Platforms Quotes

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Success Quotes

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Successful Quotes

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Stars Quotes

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , New Beginnings Quotes , Soul Quotes

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Retirement Quotes , Solitude Quotes

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Strength Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Humility Quotes , Pride Quotes

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Numbers Quotes , Quality Quotes

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Cities Quotes , People Quotes

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Genius Quotes , Biographies Quotes

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Church Quotes , Might Quotes

Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Science Quotes