Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: Apr 27, 1882
Every Great Life Man Men You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman E. E. Cummings
What is a farm but a mute gospel? Ralph Waldo Emerson
Farm Mute Gospel
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth Mind Every Must Both Between Make Repose Cannot Choice
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
You Young Once High Given Counsel Always Heard Person Afraid Young Person
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth You Speak Witness Grass Alive All Things Seem Bear Brute Vouchers Underground Stir Very Move Roots Things
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Needs Man Constitution Rich Every Ought Consumer He Expensive Producer Every Man
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time Possess Ourselves More Know Same Same Time Much
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evil Wave Our Alike Institutions
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life Preaching Sentiment Moral Duties Expression Application
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quality Events Days Imports Moment Actor Number
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gift Beauty Despised Those Has-Been Except Seldom Outward Been Refused Which Whom
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing Reading Sense Every France Spoken Napoleon Line His Sentence Deserves
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great Courage Before Having Great Part Part Done Thing
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature Animal Rude White Aboriginal Bear Palace
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature Analyze Could Method Who Ever
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere. Ralph Waldo Emerson
God Every Universe Anarchy Sphere System No Chance His Sitting Chance
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man Learning Something Without Prayed Heartily Ever
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners Others Fine Support Need
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. Ralph Waldo Emerson
World Owes Pay State More Said Than Bankruptcy
Good men must not obey the laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good Obey Men Too Good Men Must Laws Well
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few Self Anything Wants Them Elegant Serve
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inhabit Symbols
We acquire the strength we have overcome. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength Overcome Acquire
Genius always finds itself a century too early. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius Intelligence Too Finds Always Itself Century Early
Every burned book enlightens the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book World Every Burned Enlightens
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom Think I Think Must Get Rid Slavery
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obey Men Our Eye See Bottom Because Us Mud Reason Why
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