Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. Ralph Waldo Emerson imagine hands art To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson greatness inspiration success Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. Ralph Waldo Emerson passion alive world Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson dream inspirational character Science does not know its debt to imagination. Ralph Waldo Emerson imagination doe science Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson bait grace beauty A man in debt is so far a slave. Ralph Waldo Emerson debt slave men There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. Ralph Waldo Emerson respect self men Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know. Ralph Waldo Emerson honesty knowing knowledge Pictures must not be too picturesque. Ralph Waldo Emerson picturesque art Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson perspective goodness roots To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson mind sky men All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. Ralph Waldo Emerson stolen writing We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are. Ralph Waldo Emerson light soul memories though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-reliance toil plot We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power. Ralph Waldo Emerson garden heart men Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins Ralph Waldo Emerson hypocrite inspirational men Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-confidence character men And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. Ralph Waldo Emerson worship loss fall No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. Ralph Waldo Emerson individuality teamwork sports