The true ship is the ship builder. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints Ralph Waldo Emerson being-yourself moon heart For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson patriotic 4th-of-july freedom The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson jobs men thinking Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free. Ralph Waldo Emerson fate intelligent wise Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. Ralph Waldo Emerson poetry sound mind For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. Ralph Waldo Emerson poetry air writing When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. Ralph Waldo Emerson money taken relationship Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation. Ralph Waldo Emerson girlfriend love romantic Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdom courage inspirational Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. Ralph Waldo Emerson future wisdom time We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. Ralph Waldo Emerson patriotic 4th-of-july opportunity We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends? Ralph Waldo Emerson money real friendship The less government we have the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson liberty government Our distrust is very expensive. Ralph Waldo Emerson ethics trust expensive It is one soul which animates all men. Ralph Waldo Emerson beams-of-light soul men You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself Ralph Waldo Emerson social-work helping trying Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature science mean The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. Ralph Waldo Emerson youth soul hero Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. Ralph Waldo Emerson dust dream integrity The greatest homage to truth is to use it. Ralph Waldo Emerson truth-is truth use
