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 The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard. Ralph Waldo Emerson talent differences genius The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. Ralph Waldo Emerson affection romantic-love earth The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. Ralph Waldo Emerson shallow taught grief All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. Ralph Waldo Emerson delight men promise There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. Ralph Waldo Emerson respect nature love No one suspects the days to be gods. Ralph Waldo Emerson suspects inspirational He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God. Ralph Waldo Emerson harbors angel goodness Pride ruined the angels. Ralph Waldo Emerson ruined angel pride Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. Ralph Waldo Emerson environment ends tree Where there is no vision a people perish. Ralph Waldo Emerson innovation insightful people You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own. Ralph Waldo Emerson burning fire heart The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. Ralph Waldo Emerson divorce morality religion He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves Ralph Waldo Emerson grandeur confusion The shot heard round the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson augusta-national revolutionary-war april-and-spring The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight. Ralph Waldo Emerson communication sea men We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Ralph Waldo Emerson justice philosophy lying Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his. Ralph Waldo Emerson joints soldier men I admire answers to which no answers can be made. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-worth made answers I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. Ralph Waldo Emerson speech sea heaven Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson skepticism cause-and-effect causes
