Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Labor is God's education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression tires.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson