It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist. Ralph Waldo Emerson taverns journey weather What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love. Ralph Waldo Emerson desire The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh. Ralph Waldo Emerson miracle soul world A moody child and wildly wise Ralph Waldo Emerson philosophical wise children For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly. Ralph Waldo Emerson wit folly grain If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it. Ralph Waldo Emerson given ifs A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him. Ralph Waldo Emerson servant eye men If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Ralph Waldo Emerson being-yourself inspirational character Treat your friend as a spectacle. Ralph Waldo Emerson treats friends friendship And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. Ralph Waldo Emerson self science knowledge Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. Ralph Waldo Emerson freedom space men There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson excess edges Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. Ralph Waldo Emerson originality greatness men Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson four saint twenties An action is the perfection and publication of thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson publication perfection action Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison. Ralph Waldo Emerson freedom angel men It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree. Ralph Waldo Emerson wise men night There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatness wise men The world we live in is but thickened light. Ralph Waldo Emerson light world Earth's a howling wilderness, Ralph Waldo Emerson wilderness suffering earth
