Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Faith Quotes, Courage Quotes

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Faith Quotes , Courage Quotes

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Taken Quotes , Office Quotes

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Expression Quotes

Beauty rests on necessities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Energy Quotes , Eloquence Quotes

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Way Quotes , Manners Quotes

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Exaggeration Is Quotes

There is always safety in valor.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Safety Quotes

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Morning Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

The best part of health is fine disposition

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Health Quotes , Disposition Quotes

Immitation is suicide.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Games Quotes , Play Quotes