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 Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment. Ralph Waldo Emerson vices hero men I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom. Ralph Waldo Emerson hero men peace I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest. Ralph Waldo Emerson friends hero art O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Ralph Waldo Emerson strikes hero fear If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age. Ralph Waldo Emerson brother hero inspirational But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. Ralph Waldo Emerson champion hero trying The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles. Ralph Waldo Emerson condemnation loud age Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. Ralph Waldo Emerson saint body religious Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form. Ralph Waldo Emerson sculpture celebration art Culture opens the sense of beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson beauty culture Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries. Ralph Waldo Emerson let-him-go carrie beauty A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad. Ralph Waldo Emerson mad beautiful beauty A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts. Ralph Waldo Emerson beautiful beauty art Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm. Ralph Waldo Emerson degrees beauty men We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. Ralph Waldo Emerson reading funny book We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. Ralph Waldo Emerson reading wise book Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories. Ralph Waldo Emerson suggestions reading book Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. Ralph Waldo Emerson bullying men hands For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. Ralph Waldo Emerson personality religious character The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. Ralph Waldo Emerson true-friend wise friendship
