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 Doing well is a result of doing good. Ralph Waldo Emerson doing-good wells results I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable. Ralph Waldo Emerson suicide loss character Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. Ralph Waldo Emerson reading ears book Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. Ralph Waldo Emerson weed house friendship Build therefore your own world. Ralph Waldo Emerson confidence world Things refuse to be mismanaged for long. Ralph Waldo Emerson refuse long Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson integrity men life Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest Ralph Waldo Emerson loses persons way The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. Ralph Waldo Emerson writing inspirational life The life of truth is cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson truth-is cold The sun shines today also. Ralph Waldo Emerson shining sun today There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant Ralph Waldo Emerson ignorance wisdom wise Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul Ralph Waldo Emerson body soul beauty Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. Ralph Waldo Emerson faces character facts Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-reliance water moving Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrens wisdom writing Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? Ralph Waldo Emerson mountain sky giving Life is to be lived, not controlled. Ralph Waldo Emerson controlled life-is Never read any book that is not a year old. Ralph Waldo Emerson reading-books book years Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years. Ralph Waldo Emerson cheerful soul years
