I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. Ralph Waldo Emerson importance curiosity people Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house. Ralph Waldo Emerson he-man house men What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest. Ralph Waldo Emerson effort cost bird The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die. Ralph Waldo Emerson successful talking men The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson apparitions ministry nature The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also. Ralph Waldo Emerson best-picture painter painting Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end. Ralph Waldo Emerson men hands art What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. Ralph Waldo Emerson dirt perseverance what-if A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye heart beautiful So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye looks world As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form. Ralph Waldo Emerson sculpture teach form The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation. Ralph Waldo Emerson spiritual wise art Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are. Ralph Waldo Emerson relief age comfort The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it. Ralph Waldo Emerson suffering sound years Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. Ralph Waldo Emerson bikers wind The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm. Ralph Waldo Emerson land men ideas Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. Ralph Waldo Emerson benefits land cities You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning. Ralph Waldo Emerson premonition were-meant-to-be future Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them? Ralph Waldo Emerson writing may thinking All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson done can-do thinking
