Ralph Waldo Emerson
459 quotations
The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
The years teach us much the days never knew.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
A man's library is a sort of harem.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
If we live truly, we shall see truly.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Life too near paralyses art.
Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Live, let live, and help live
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
We boil at different degrees.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
All mankind loves a lover.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.