Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson trust choices inspirational Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. Ralph Waldo Emerson best-love money success There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. Ralph Waldo Emerson optical-illusions transcendentalism illusion Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatness real world The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he! Ralph Waldo Emerson marriage acceptance love In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson failure fear inspirational The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson lazy-eyes eye soul Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me. Ralph Waldo Emerson exercise friendship men A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. Ralph Waldo Emerson funny-love marriage men Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson being-different men art Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. Ralph Waldo Emerson optimism choices speak A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson money sweet men For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee! Ralph Waldo Emerson thanksgiving song sweet I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. Ralph Waldo Emerson good-god best-friend friendship Activity is contagious. Ralph Waldo Emerson activity contagious The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Ralph Waldo Emerson inspiration opportunity positive ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right. Ralph Waldo Emerson real truth lying These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-reliance voice solitude Language is fossil Poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson fossils language poetry The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; Ralph Waldo Emerson poet sensual men
