The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson Fractures well cured make us more strong. Ralph Waldo Emerson motivationstronginspirational Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! Ralph Waldo Emerson eyerunningsex The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man. Ralph Waldo Emerson eyemenjesus The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - Ralph Waldo Emerson trustloyaltytruth I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. Ralph Waldo Emerson dustangelmorning Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson choicestruthmind Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. Ralph Waldo Emerson healthfitnesssleep Common sense is as rare as genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson common-sensegeniusserious Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson beautifulbeautyinspirational Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. Ralph Waldo Emerson geniusmannersway Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed Ralph Waldo Emerson fruitcausesmean Some people are born very far from home. Ralph Waldo Emerson bornhomepeople The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. Ralph Waldo Emerson atheistinspirationallife Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. Ralph Waldo Emerson cynicaldogsight The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. Ralph Waldo Emerson keysattitudemen The world belongs to the energetic. Ralph Waldo Emerson workmotivationalinspirational A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us. Ralph Waldo Emerson prosperityinspiration For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. Ralph Waldo Emerson gratitudethanksgivingthankful Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. Ralph Waldo Emerson alcoholcoffeetime Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. Ralph Waldo Emerson eyeexpressionfall
