Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Courage Quotes, Men Quotes

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Effort Quotes , Bird Quotes

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Spring Quotes , Moving Quotes

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Diving Deep Quotes

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Other Worlds Quotes , Atheism Quotes

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Judging Quotes

The language of the street is always strong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Tongue Quotes , Prison Quotes

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Deeds Quotes , Might Quotes

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Names Quotes , Action Quotes

Accept your genius and say what you think.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes