Notable Quotes
Browse quotes by subject | Browse quotes by author


RALPH WALDO EMERSON QUOTES III

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

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life

Back to Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes