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 Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel. Ralph Waldo Emerson bananas sensual men The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson healthy attitude boys The hero is he who is immovably centered. Ralph Waldo Emerson hero No facts to me are sacred; none are profane. Ralph Waldo Emerson profane sacred facts How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is. Ralph Waldo Emerson division perception mind If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil. Ralph Waldo Emerson devil ifs children Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him? Ralph Waldo Emerson sunset stars blow The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson delight good-friend I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints. Ralph Waldo Emerson being-yourself moon heart Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think. Ralph Waldo Emerson genius two thinking Literature is eavesdropping. Ralph Waldo Emerson eavesdropping literature Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds! Ralph Waldo Emerson consistency foolish mind The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Ralph Waldo Emerson distance lines average In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson light meditation memories That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Ralph Waldo Emerson teaching Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed. Ralph Waldo Emerson ashamed jokes going-away All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Ralph Waldo Emerson influence natural mind Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within. Ralph Waldo Emerson cherish solitude soul Live in the sunshine. Ralph Waldo Emerson sunshine But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson encounters soul doe
