Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Famous Quotes & Quotations By Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Writing.
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Comedy.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Nature.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Attitude, Evil.
The years teach much which the days never knew.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Age.
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Exaggeration.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Boldness.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Children.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Beauty.
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Exaggeration.
'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Hypocrisy.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Superficiality.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Exaggeration.
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Beauty.
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Spiritual.
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Ice Cream, Food.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fortune of the Republic, 1878 - Category: Weeds.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Confidence.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Hypocrisy.
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Patriotism, Purity.
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend,
Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Woodnotes - Category: Trees.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Compassion.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill,
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Debt.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Category: Vegitarians.
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