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 There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many. Ralph Waldo Emerson force strength rooms So far as a person thinks; they are free. Ralph Waldo Emerson freedom persons thinking Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. Ralph Waldo Emerson liberty freedom men To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Ralph Waldo Emerson decide-upon soldier courage I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. Ralph Waldo Emerson wise knowledge school I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy. Ralph Waldo Emerson blind limits men A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution. Ralph Waldo Emerson insane men night I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction. Ralph Waldo Emerson time men fiction The dearest events are summer-rain. Ralph Waldo Emerson events summer rain Life is a series of surprises. Ralph Waldo Emerson anticipation surprise life Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there. Ralph Waldo Emerson car pay life There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson alcohol drinking world All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times. Ralph Waldo Emerson rare-moments alcohol light The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. Ralph Waldo Emerson alcohol beer feelings It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration. Ralph Waldo Emerson helping-others beautiful people Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom. Ralph Waldo Emerson emotional freedom feelings The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion. Ralph Waldo Emerson forgiveness forgiving differences Greatness once and forever has down with opinion. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatness hero forever The greatest man in history was the poorest. Ralph Waldo Emerson historical men history Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson military hero history
