TIMELY WISDOM

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Ralph Waldo Emerson 4


The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson





The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson




There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson








 

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