" Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥15SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥13SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥18SharePinTweet0 SharesInspirational QuotesLife QuotesMotivational QuotesPositiveQuotes Gallery
" Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥14SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" 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 ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥31SharePinTweet0 SharesIndependence DayLife Quotes
" The only way to have a friend is to be one." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥11SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥16SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥12SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
"There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥39SharePinTweet0 SharesLove QuotesMother QuotesQuotes GalleryWomen
" There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥15SharePinTweet0 SharesEducation Quotes
" The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥12SharePinTweet3 SharesFriendship
" What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
