Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Eye Quotes

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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We pass for what we are.

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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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There is no God dare wrong a worm.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

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Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

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Each mind has its own method.

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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

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