RALPH WALDO EMERSON QUOTES III
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- The hero is not fed on sweets,
- Daily his own heart he eats.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Heroism
- Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall
- Shadows of the thoughts of day,
- And thy fortunes, as they fall,
- The bias of the will betray.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Memory
- Love on his errand bound to go
- Can swim the flood and wade through snow,
- Where way is none, 't will creep and wind
- And eat through Alps its home to find.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Love
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, lecture, Nov. 18, 1862
We sink to rise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
All successful men have agreed in one thing--they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. A belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing--characterizes all valuable minds, and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one. The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Character," The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, journal entry, Dec. 10, 1824
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