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 Imitation cannot go above its model. Ralph Waldo Emerson imitation models A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. Ralph Waldo Emerson loss character men The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson speech mind world Its the not the Destination, It's the journey. Ralph Waldo Emerson destination journey If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. Ralph Waldo Emerson perspective attitude positive These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger. Ralph Waldo Emerson calamity danger time All substances the cunning chemist Time Ralph Waldo Emerson liquor substance time The wings of Time are black and white, Ralph Waldo Emerson black-and-white time morning Let us leave hurry to slaves. Ralph Waldo Emerson slave time Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature heart time Today is a king in disguise. Ralph Waldo Emerson kings time today Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. Ralph Waldo Emerson future selfish time Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds. Ralph Waldo Emerson future time giving Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. Ralph Waldo Emerson shining time facts Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson adversity rain inspirational Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose. Ralph Waldo Emerson luck motivational inspirational Our chief want in life, is, Ralph Waldo Emerson want motivational friendship It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere Ralph Waldo Emerson true-friend stupid friendship If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. Ralph Waldo Emerson business spiritual fall We change whether we like it or not. Ralph Waldo Emerson change