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 Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. Ralph Waldo Emerson gentleman personality character I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Ralph Waldo Emerson clothes fashion giving Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind. Ralph Waldo Emerson knives roots wind Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most. Ralph Waldo Emerson iron hate son The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. Ralph Waldo Emerson cheer teaching education To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism. Ralph Waldo Emerson errors mistake believe Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school. Ralph Waldo Emerson understanding teacher school The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once. Ralph Waldo Emerson apples experience men The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension. Ralph Waldo Emerson experience men world All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us. Ralph Waldo Emerson men lying past Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. Ralph Waldo Emerson distance quality teaching The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. Ralph Waldo Emerson fantasy imagination time A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson fate freedom men To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. Ralph Waldo Emerson approval joy happiness There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society. Ralph Waldo Emerson talent citizens genius Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table. Ralph Waldo Emerson errors everyday profound If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting. Ralph Waldo Emerson honesty truth men A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it. Ralph Waldo Emerson honesty truth men There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. Ralph Waldo Emerson honesty truth men Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these. Ralph Waldo Emerson honesty truth lying
