The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. Ralph Waldo Emerson poet saint lows If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes. Ralph Waldo Emerson mosquitoes woods walks The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. Ralph Waldo Emerson progress identity religious Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. Ralph Waldo Emerson strong men long Free should be the scholar - free and brave. Ralph Waldo Emerson teaching should brave The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. Ralph Waldo Emerson editors government war What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life? Ralph Waldo Emerson leadership courage morning The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson vocabulary would-be men Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun. Ralph Waldo Emerson passion powerful spring Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisest strongest lasts Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think. Ralph Waldo Emerson made people thinking A good indignation makes an excellent speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson indignation excellent speech All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean. Ralph Waldo Emerson belief age mean The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion. Ralph Waldo Emerson true-religion multitudes church The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. Ralph Waldo Emerson drawing cities civilization Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein. Ralph Waldo Emerson light heart men Do what you're afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson rely seems memories Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die. Ralph Waldo Emerson dies History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons Ralph Waldo Emerson stout earnest biographies
