Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Eye Quotes, Men Quotes

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

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Do what you're afraid to do.

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

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We live ruins amid ruins.

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

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Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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