Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

"How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:21:20 -0400

“How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man’s limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has he enterprises? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

"Don’t be pushed by your problems, be lead by your dreams."

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:11:41 -0400

“Don’t be pushed by your problems, be lead by your dreams.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:35:51 -0400

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We judge a man’s wisdom by his hope."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:34:56 -0400

“We judge a man’s wisdom by his hope.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Commit a crime and the world is made of glass."

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:31:27 -0500

“Commit a crime and the world is made of glass.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let me go where’er I will, I hear a sky-born music still: It sounds from all things old, It..."

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:52:26 -0500

“

Let me go where’er I will,
I hear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that’s fair, from all that’s foul,
Peals out a cheerful song.

It is not only in the rose,
It is not only in the bird,
Not only where the rainbow glows,
Nor in the song of woman heard,
But in the darkest, meanest things
There alway, alway something sings.

‘T is not in the high stars alone,
Nor in the cup of budding flowers,
Nor in the redbreast’s mellow tone,
Nor in the bow that smiles in showers,
But in the mud and scum of things
There always, always something sings.

”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:18:06 -0500

“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:17:00 -0500

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:16:01 -0500

“Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must be our own before we can be another’s."

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:55:03 -0500

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

inkingpaper: Emerson

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:50:32 -0500

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Emerson

"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds,..."

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:35:33 -0400

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:49:49 -0400

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:48:59 -0400

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:48:12 -0400

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:47:26 -0400

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:06:10 -0400

“A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is..."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:34:14 -0400

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion: that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil, bestowed on the plot of ground which is given to him to till.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule..."

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:41:15 -0400

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong."

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:40:26 -0400

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson