He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted. 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 selfopportunitydoors 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 naturelawscience The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd. Ralph Waldo Emerson crowdsdifferentopposites Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Ralph Waldo Emerson usereasonknowledge The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul Ralph Waldo Emerson soulinspirationalworld 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 strongactionmen The years teach much which the days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdominspirationallife 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 powermeaningfulthinking What you are comes to you. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-pitylaw-of-attractioncharacter 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 errorsblowlying Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. Ralph Waldo Emerson kindactioncharacter 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 painattitudemotivational Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. Ralph Waldo Emerson madcrazymen No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. Ralph Waldo Emerson sacredfactspast 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 platorunningyears The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. Ralph Waldo Emerson beautifulinspirationalmen The primary wisdom is intuition. Ralph Waldo Emerson primariesintuition A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatnessgodmen That man is idle who can do something better. Ralph Waldo Emerson idlelazinessmen All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle. Ralph Waldo Emerson riddlecriminal-mindkeys
