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 Wise men are not wise at all times. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom wise men Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Ralph Waldo Emerson punishment intelligence wisdom There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep. Ralph Waldo Emerson virtue vices blood The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects. Ralph Waldo Emerson religious weather morning Thought makes everything fit for use. Ralph Waldo Emerson use ideas thinking Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. Ralph Waldo Emerson property ideas Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well. Ralph Waldo Emerson law success men Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation. Ralph Waldo Emerson angel men science The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. Ralph Waldo Emerson angel men heaven The eye is easily frightened. Ralph Waldo Emerson frightened eye In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature real running The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light. Ralph Waldo Emerson light mind world When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. Ralph Waldo Emerson mother-earth saving-the-earth men We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. Ralph Waldo Emerson genius choices writing We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-improvement today inspirational The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength. Ralph Waldo Emerson self cute men You cannot do a kindness too soon. Ralph Waldo Emerson karma thankful appreciation Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. Ralph Waldo Emerson law giving life The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. Ralph Waldo Emerson optimism limits soul Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. Ralph Waldo Emerson imagination men art
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