Morality is the object of government. 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 trustchoicesinspirational Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. Ralph Waldo Emerson best-lovemoneysuccess There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. Ralph Waldo Emerson optical-illusionstranscendentalismillusion 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 greatnessrealworld 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 marriageacceptancelove In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson failurefearinspirational The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson lazy-eyeseyesoul 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 exercisefriendshipmen A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. Ralph Waldo Emerson funny-lovemarriagemen Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson being-differentmenart Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. Ralph Waldo Emerson optimismchoicesspeak A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson moneysweetmen 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 thanksgivingsongsweet I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. Ralph Waldo Emerson good-godbest-friendfriendship Activity is contagious. Ralph Waldo Emerson activitycontagious The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Ralph Waldo Emerson inspirationopportunitypositive ...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 realtruthlying 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-reliancevoicesolitude Language is fossil Poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson fossilslanguagepoetry The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; Ralph Waldo Emerson poetsensualmen
