Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 50

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All successful men have agreed in one thing, --they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest genius is the most indebted person. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Invention breeds invention. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man is related to all nature. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a piece of the universe made alive. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson