Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skill to do comes of doing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power and speed be hands and feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into every individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God hid the whole world in thy heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson