Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson