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 sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. Ralph Waldo Emerson hundred intelligent age Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce. Ralph Waldo Emerson acceptance attitude men Skepticism is slow suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson skepticism suicidal suicide The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. Ralph Waldo Emerson silence acceptance world Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Ralph Waldo Emerson growing-up believe book The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson stars loneliness fall Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. Ralph Waldo Emerson gains society art Society is a hospital of incurables. Ralph Waldo Emerson hospitals society Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons. Ralph Waldo Emerson society foolish young Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. Ralph Waldo Emerson society real character Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. Ralph Waldo Emerson silence personality giving Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. Ralph Waldo Emerson monkeys slavery men The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. Ralph Waldo Emerson navy nations army He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man. Ralph Waldo Emerson garden sweet men A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction. Ralph Waldo Emerson garden men hands The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson division-of-labor garden nature The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary. Ralph Waldo Emerson foundation beautiful beauty It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye beauty art Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood. Ralph Waldo Emerson reading book blood Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. Ralph Waldo Emerson corn money war
