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 Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Ralph Waldo Emerson prayer spiritual men He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. Ralph Waldo Emerson easter eternity men A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. Ralph Waldo Emerson creativity money creative The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. Ralph Waldo Emerson sailing army men Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. Ralph Waldo Emerson sake add men No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Ralph Waldo Emerson learning prayer spiritual The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Ralph Waldo Emerson agriculture land men Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear. Ralph Waldo Emerson music healthy sweet This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it. Ralph Waldo Emerson come-up valleys climbing I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. Ralph Waldo Emerson anarchy wish littles If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? Ralph Waldo Emerson age desire men No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-reliance sacred law Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson transition spirit life A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. Ralph Waldo Emerson consistency wall thinking Nature hates calculators. Ralph Waldo Emerson calculators hate nature Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson nature positive science Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. Ralph Waldo Emerson accomplishment giving boys People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Ralph Waldo Emerson self-esteem change hope There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. Ralph Waldo Emerson cooking perfect food Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. Ralph Waldo Emerson princess poetry art
