Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Flower Quotes

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Growing Up Quotes , Men Quotes

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Apology Quotes , Jewels Quotes

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Country Quotes , Horse Quotes

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Poetry Quotes

A man is a god in ruins.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , God Quotes , Art 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

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , World Quotes

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Wind Quotes

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Gambling Quotes

First be a good animal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Animal Quotes

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Nature hates calculators.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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