God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering. Ralph Waldo Emerson self opportunity doors Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature law science The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd. Ralph Waldo Emerson crowds different opposites Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Ralph Waldo Emerson use reason knowledge The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul Ralph Waldo Emerson soul inspirational world Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. Ralph Waldo Emerson strong action men The years teach much which the days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom inspirational life Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. Ralph Waldo Emerson power meaningful thinking What you are comes to you. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-pity law-of-attraction character The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. Ralph Waldo Emerson errors blow lying Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. Ralph Waldo Emerson kind action character The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. Ralph Waldo Emerson pain attitude motivational Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. Ralph Waldo Emerson mad crazy men No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. Ralph Waldo Emerson sacred facts past When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years? Ralph Waldo Emerson plato running years The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. Ralph Waldo Emerson beautiful inspirational men The primary wisdom is intuition. Ralph Waldo Emerson primaries intuition A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatness god men That man is idle who can do something better. Ralph Waldo Emerson idle laziness men All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle. Ralph Waldo Emerson riddle criminal-mind keys
