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 soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. Ralph Waldo Emerson god men thinking Beauty rests on necessities. Ralph Waldo Emerson beauty Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson pilots soul beauty A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. Ralph Waldo Emerson light men world A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye truth life All necessary truth is its own evidence. Ralph Waldo Emerson evidence truth-is truth Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony. Ralph Waldo Emerson honesty motivational inspirational Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson iron work men If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you? Ralph Waldo Emerson national-debt conceited pay Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson universe soul The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses Ralph Waldo Emerson infancy inward lovers Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired. Ralph Waldo Emerson regret self prayer There is one mind common to all individual men Ralph Waldo Emerson mind common men We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Ralph Waldo Emerson issues coward ideas Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. Ralph Waldo Emerson conversation men art The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, Ralph Waldo Emerson merit church ifs The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. Ralph Waldo Emerson delight may beauty Infancy conforms to nobody; Ralph Waldo Emerson philosophy history art The heroic cannot be the common, Ralph Waldo Emerson reconcile hero common The French woman says, Ralph Waldo Emerson french-woman humans
