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 Immitation is suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson suicide In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. Ralph Waldo Emerson delight civilization book Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson lovers forget book We expect a great man to be a good reader. Ralph Waldo Emerson lovers men book We walk alone in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson solitude walks world The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet Ralph Waldo Emerson experience age waiting Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. Ralph Waldo Emerson pain curiosity life All the great ages have been ages of belief. Ralph Waldo Emerson has-beens belief age Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. Ralph Waldo Emerson statistics opinion The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts. Ralph Waldo Emerson hero character believe Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it. Ralph Waldo Emerson photography may average Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Ralph Waldo Emerson quality artist art The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson design marriage mind Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, Ralph Waldo Emerson daughter teaching spring Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love. Ralph Waldo Emerson perhaps-love romantic-love love-is The first lesson of history is that evil is good. Ralph Waldo Emerson lessons evil history The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. Ralph Waldo Emerson exhilaration affection love Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness. Ralph Waldo Emerson motivation action inspirational The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air. Ralph Waldo Emerson views air giving The only prudence in life is concentration. Ralph Waldo Emerson prudence focus-and-concentration life
