Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words, there is properly no history; only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love;Obey thy heart;Friends, kindred, days,Estate, good fame,Plans, credit and the Muse,Nothing refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God said, I am tired of kings,I suffer them no more;Up to my ear the morning bringsThe outrage of the poor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson