Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Jesus Quotes, Hero Quotes

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Hero Quotes

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Positive Quotes , Happiness Quotes

All the devils respect virtue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Devil Quotes

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Wish Quotes

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Contentment Quotes , Analysis Quotes

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Destiny Quotes

Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Miracle Quotes

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Character Quotes

The true ship is the ship builder.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Ships Quotes

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Song Quotes

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Determination Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Christian Quotes , Children Quotes

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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