TIMELY WISDOM

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5


In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

There is always safety in valor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

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