Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Skills Quotes, Common Sense Quotes

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Skills Quotes , Common Sense 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

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Blow Quotes

A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Reality Quotes

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Only poetry inspires poetry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Poetry Quotes

The primary wisdom is intuition.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Intuition Quotes

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Public Opinion Quotes

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Mind Quotes , Interviews Quotes

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Soul Quotes , Self Reliance Quotes

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes

When a man meets his make, society begins.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

5 years ago

Message Copied

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