You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. Ralph Waldo Emerson soulherojustice Every man is an impossibility until he is born. Ralph Waldo Emerson possibilitybornmen The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. Ralph Waldo Emerson qualityflowimagination The first point of courtesy must always be truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson courtesymannersfirsts Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. Ralph Waldo Emerson angelinspiringmen You never know how you look through other people's eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson eyepeoplelooks My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all. Ralph Waldo Emerson fathers-dayinspirationalchildren Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know Ralph Waldo Emerson bleachsunshinesnow Knowledge exists to be imparted. Ralph Waldo Emerson teachingeducationinspirational He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. Ralph Waldo Emerson adversitysoulmind The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson mattermindmemories When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson philosophicalreflectionlife The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson horsestarsflower There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. Ralph Waldo Emerson workphilosophyart If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. Ralph Waldo Emerson successpigsmen Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. Ralph Waldo Emerson healthexerciselife Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Ralph Waldo Emerson criminalsglassesearth No man can have society upon his own terms. Ralph Waldo Emerson termsocietymen Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson honestydoemen Spirit, that made those heroes dare Ralph Waldo Emerson memorial-dayupliftingchildren
