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 Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. Ralph Waldo Emerson soul joy promise The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. Ralph Waldo Emerson foolish-man wise men In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. Ralph Waldo Emerson deep-life thoughtful deep-thought Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days. Ralph Waldo Emerson liberty principles men Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. Ralph Waldo Emerson freedom men thinking All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. Ralph Waldo Emerson violence power absence Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson lonely loneliness discovery The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field. Ralph Waldo Emerson use views moving The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned. Ralph Waldo Emerson tombstone soul hands What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good? Ralph Waldo Emerson justice men lying We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. Ralph Waldo Emerson diversity justice men Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy? Ralph Waldo Emerson diversity rights justice Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson diversity justice life God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor. Ralph Waldo Emerson tired kings morning I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. Ralph Waldo Emerson laughter success happiness I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. Ralph Waldo Emerson education pay son That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. Ralph Waldo Emerson educational education You cannot make a cheap palace. Ralph Waldo Emerson strategy palaces The education of the will is the object of our existence. Ralph Waldo Emerson existence education school Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. Ralph Waldo Emerson scholarship educational awakening
