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 little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment. Ralph Waldo Emerson powerful strong simple As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. Ralph Waldo Emerson criminals medicine moving Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. Ralph Waldo Emerson discipline commitment ideas Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson judging men book You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Ralph Waldo Emerson progress roots knowledge We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born. Ralph Waldo Emerson born fate battle Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend Ralph Waldo Emerson solitude inspiration friendship Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means Ralph Waldo Emerson inspiration character mean He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard. Ralph Waldo Emerson hobbies giving commitment To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson laugh-often laughter enthusiasm Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won. Ralph Waldo Emerson shapes home ideas A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye men life Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear. Ralph Waldo Emerson i-am-sorry im-sorry public-opinion Let us be poised, wise and our own today. Ralph Waldo Emerson life-and-love wise today We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. Ralph Waldo Emerson valentines-day eye love-is The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy. Ralph Waldo Emerson light law science Coal is a portable climate. Ralph Waldo Emerson coal climate energy The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion. Ralph Waldo Emerson passion native-american character It is defeat which educates us. Ralph Waldo Emerson educate defeat He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. Ralph Waldo Emerson hate eye heart
