Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Zodiac Quotes, Rainbow Quotes

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Zodiac Quotes , Rainbow Quotes

No man can help another without helping himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Soul Quotes

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Wise Quotes

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

There is no God dare wrong a worm.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Worms Quotes , Dare Quotes

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Honor Quotes , Crowds Quotes

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sex Quotes , Two Quotes

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Would Be Quotes

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Rain Quotes , Riding Your Bike Quotes

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Events Quotes

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Education Quotes , Suicide Quotes

Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Ice Cream Quotes , House Quotes

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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