The true ship is the ship builder. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. Ralph Waldo Emerson spirituality libertarian sin A man is known by the books he reads. Ralph Waldo Emerson reading men book There is a crack in everything God has made Ralph Waldo Emerson cracks god made The surest poison is time. Ralph Waldo Emerson time-management poison time Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. Ralph Waldo Emerson scum hope courage The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship Ralph Waldo Emerson happiness inspirational life Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it Ralph Waldo Emerson nature flower inspirational Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. Ralph Waldo Emerson anatomy-and-physiology astrology selfish The virtue of books is to be readable. Ralph Waldo Emerson virtue writing book The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land. Ralph Waldo Emerson land steps writing Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. Ralph Waldo Emerson skating kind writing In good writing, words become one with things. Ralph Waldo Emerson writing-words good-writing writing Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson sacrifice real self Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it. Ralph Waldo Emerson egypt doors art It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated. Ralph Waldo Emerson mind dresses character Happy is the house that shelters a friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson shelter house friendship In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us. Ralph Waldo Emerson voice exercise book In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is. Ralph Waldo Emerson eight men life I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson language real book Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden. Ralph Waldo Emerson beautiful life art
