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 It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson courage heart men Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson motivational inspirational life This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. Ralph Waldo Emerson uplifting time positive Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. Ralph Waldo Emerson equality tomorrow today Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. Ralph Waldo Emerson equality problem courage His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. Ralph Waldo Emerson forgiveness heart memories If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. Ralph Waldo Emerson democracy freedom war My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Ralph Waldo Emerson freedom angel kings We grant no dukedoms to the few, Ralph Waldo Emerson sunday freedom monday Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson rejection beauty happiness Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat. Ralph Waldo Emerson sugar health meat There is properly no history, only biography. Ralph Waldo Emerson funny-life historical history Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes. Ralph Waldo Emerson snakes history past In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial. Ralph Waldo Emerson causes profound history A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye strong hope We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. Ralph Waldo Emerson intelligence intelligent lying Contemporary American psychiatrist Ralph Waldo Emerson childhood games play There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson benefits principles teaching Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. Ralph Waldo Emerson add song life The solid, solid universe Ralph Waldo Emerson light eye life
