Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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