The true ship is the ship builder. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived Ralph Waldo Emerson torment grief evil If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. Ralph Waldo Emerson niece encouragement integrity Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson success inspirational death No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him. Ralph Waldo Emerson pride men Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. Ralph Waldo Emerson excess quality running No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you. Ralph Waldo Emerson earth doors heaven Beauty without expression is boring. Ralph Waldo Emerson makeup greatness expression As soon as there is life there is danger. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatness danger life Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. Ralph Waldo Emerson cat character drama Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson music sun art There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. Ralph Waldo Emerson mom mother love Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape. Ralph Waldo Emerson sky joy life Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love. Ralph Waldo Emerson army cities men Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth. Ralph Waldo Emerson air clouds running Some books leave us free and some books make us free. Ralph Waldo Emerson books-and-reading reading book Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. Ralph Waldo Emerson inspirational-life time art Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year. Ralph Waldo Emerson coffee party mirrors Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. Ralph Waldo Emerson getting-older fascination age A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson political silly science It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' Ralph Waldo Emerson success positive inspirational
