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1. I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,—a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,—if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. You are constantly invited to be what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. Every burned book enlightens the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. Never read any book that is not a year old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad. He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leather boxes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. A moment is a concentrated eternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
60. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
62. The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
63. Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
65. He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
66. Skill to do comes of doing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
67. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
70. People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
71. If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. ‘Tis not important how the hero does this or that, but what he is.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
74. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
75. The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
76. Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
77. Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
78. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
79. Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
80. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
81. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
82. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
83. That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
84. We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
85. Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
88. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. If you would lift me you must be on higher ground. If you would liberate me you must be free. If you would correct my false view of facts, — hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
90. Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
91. The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
92. A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
95. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
96. Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
97. Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
98. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
99. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
100. Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
101. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
102. There is properly no history; only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
103. What a new face courage puts on everything!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
104. Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
105. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
106. There are books which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
107. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
108. There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
109. It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
110. For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
111. We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
112. There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
113. Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
114. Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
115. Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
116. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
117. The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
118. Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
119. Grow angry slowly – there’s plenty of time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
120. Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
121. I do not wish more external goods, — neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons. The gain is apparent; the tax is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
122. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
123. Life is our dictionary.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
124. Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe. It will speak, though you were dumb, by its own miraculous organ. It will flow out of your actions, your manners, and your face. It will bring you friendships. It will impledge you to truth by the love and expectation of generous minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
125. The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
126. No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby – so helpless and so ridiculous.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
127. No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
128. Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
129. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
130. The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
131. What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
132. What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
133. The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
134. Life is a progress, and not a station.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
135. Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
136. We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
137. People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
138. Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
139. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
140. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
141. Great men exist that there may be greater men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
142. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
143. Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
144. He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
145. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
146. Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
147. But genius looks forward. The eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius creates.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
148. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
149. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
150. To fill the hour – that is happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
151. Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
152. I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example, to find a pot of buried gold, knowing that it brings with it new burdens.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
153. Beauty without expression is boring.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
154. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
155. When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
156. We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
157. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
158. The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
159. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
160. You become what you think about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
161. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
162. The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
163. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
164. Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
165. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
166. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
167. Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
168. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
169. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
170. Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
171. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
172. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
173. The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
174. Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
175. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
176. What am I? And what is? Asks the human spirit with a curiosity new-kindled, but never to be quenched.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
177. Do the thing and you will have the power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
178. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
179. Conservatism stands on man’s confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonair and social; reform is individual and imperious.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
180. With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
181. Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
182. In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
183. Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
184. Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
185. No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
186. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
187. The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
188. So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
189. The world belongs to the energetic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
190. A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
191. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
192. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
193. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
194. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
195. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
196. The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
197. The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
198. Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
199. Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
200. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
201. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
202. Our strength grows out of our weakness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
203. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
204. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
205. The less government we have, the better — the fewer laws, and the less confided power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
206. Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
207. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
208. Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
209. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
210. The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
211. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
212. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
213. Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
214. My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
215. Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
216. Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
217. We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
218. Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
219. Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
220. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
221. There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
222. Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
223. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
224. Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
225. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
226. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
227. Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
228. Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
229. When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
230. We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
231. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
232. Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
233. The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
234. Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
235. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
236. Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
237. God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
238. God enters by a private door into every individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
239. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
240. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
241. The artist always has the masters in his eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
242. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — “always do what you are afraid to do”.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
243. If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
244. Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
245. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
246. Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
247. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
248. Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
249. A nation never falls but by suicide.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
250. It is a happy talent to know how to play.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
251. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
252. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
253. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
254. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
255. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
256. Children are all foreigners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
257. The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
258. Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
259. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
260. Don’t choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
261. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
262. We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
263. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
264. To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
265. Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
266. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
267. In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
268. Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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