Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson