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 A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things. Ralph Waldo Emerson true-man men A system-grinder hates the truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson grinder hate And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men. Ralph Waldo Emerson writing adventure memories You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power Ralph Waldo Emerson Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. Ralph Waldo Emerson gains taken art You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, Ralph Waldo Emerson hate littles years You've got to be taught to be afraid Ralph Waldo Emerson skins eye people Life has a way of demanding that you live it. Ralph Waldo Emerson way Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. Ralph Waldo Emerson taken commitment firsts Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Ralph Waldo Emerson bud flower roots Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers Ralph Waldo Emerson clothes errors cities A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. Ralph Waldo Emerson judging may pigs Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer. Ralph Waldo Emerson autumn voice winter I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular. Ralph Waldo Emerson mets particular men Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces. Ralph Waldo Emerson weary surface giving There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon. Ralph Waldo Emerson principles simple dwelling The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government. Ralph Waldo Emerson bully government teaching To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. Ralph Waldo Emerson body nature mind Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Ralph Waldo Emerson come-up sin men Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. Ralph Waldo Emerson intuition literature book
