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 A ruddy drop of manly blood Ralph Waldo Emerson sea life blood Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. Ralph Waldo Emerson essence men life Venus, when her son was lost, Ralph Waldo Emerson curls life son it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature flower sky Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens. Ralph Waldo Emerson essentials garden nature All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature heart men The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature doe rain "In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair." Ralph Waldo Emerson leaving nature eye In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature masters art Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature latin love Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. Ralph Waldo Emerson courage men peace The true poem is the poet's mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson poetry mind art For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. Ralph Waldo Emerson argument poetry The finest poetry was first experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson finest poetry firsts Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson reform politics men Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would! Ralph Waldo Emerson power men children Wherever there is power there is age. Ralph Waldo Emerson power age Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. Ralph Waldo Emerson destroyed indifference religion Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism. Ralph Waldo Emerson inquiry exploration motivational Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. Ralph Waldo Emerson cities men science
