Author Topic: ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes ~ (Read 15070 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #285 on:** August 10, 2015, 04:58:11 PM »

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

MysteRy · « **Reply #286 on:** August 10, 2015, 04:58:37 PM »

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.

MysteRy · « **Reply #287 on:** August 10, 2015, 04:59:01 PM »

So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.

MysteRy · « **Reply #288 on:** August 10, 2015, 04:59:30 PM »

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.

MysteRy · « **Reply #289 on:** August 10, 2015, 04:59:54 PM »

The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.

MysteRy · « **Reply #290 on:** August 10, 2015, 05:00:20 PM »

Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

MysteRy · « **Reply #291 on:** August 10, 2015, 05:00:53 PM »

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

MysteRy · « **Reply #292 on:** August 10, 2015, 05:01:17 PM »

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.

MysteRy · « **Reply #293 on:** August 10, 2015, 05:01:48 PM »

The best of life is conversation and the greatest success is confidence or perfect understanding between two people.

MysteRy · « **Reply #294 on:** August 10, 2015, 05:02:12 PM »

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

MysteRy · « **Reply #295 on:** August 10, 2015, 05:02:37 PM »

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

MysteRy · « **Reply #296 on:** August 11, 2015, 01:39:25 PM »

There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

MysteRy · « **Reply #297 on:** August 11, 2015, 01:40:55 PM »

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

MysteRy · « **Reply #298 on:** August 11, 2015, 01:42:07 PM »

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #299 on:** August 11, 2015, 01:43:24 PM »

Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

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