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 Under every deep a lower deep opens. Ralph Waldo Emerson very-deep He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser. Ralph Waldo Emerson wise love-is looks Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. Ralph Waldo Emerson best-self being-yourself self First be a good animal. Ralph Waldo Emerson animal firsts The health of the eye demands a horizon. Ralph Waldo Emerson horizon demand eye All vigor is contagious. Ralph Waldo Emerson contagious vigor Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson gymnastics mind walking Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire. Ralph Waldo Emerson discipline heart numbers Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference. Ralph Waldo Emerson differences different mind Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God. Ralph Waldo Emerson outlets may men We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye kindness heart The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson soul I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed. Ralph Waldo Emerson whales creatures The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections. Ralph Waldo Emerson affection understanding men A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love. Ralph Waldo Emerson cheer soul heart Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other. Ralph Waldo Emerson perception together mean Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself. Ralph Waldo Emerson one-day actors done All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson hate perfect writing I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more. Ralph Waldo Emerson preacher church heard Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. Ralph Waldo Emerson cities rivers way
