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Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 11
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis mans perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good bye, proud world I'm going home Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two classes of poets the poets by education and practice, these we respect and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen librarya company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rhodora If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is his who has money to go over it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity Himself from God he could not free He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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