Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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