You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. Ralph Waldo Emerson medicinebattleunique God will not have his work made manifest by cowards Ralph Waldo Emerson faithcouragework Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. Ralph Waldo Emerson wisdomwisepositive You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. Ralph Waldo Emerson sufferinginspirational We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. Ralph Waldo Emerson learningeducationschool The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. Ralph Waldo Emerson vegetablesfoodmen God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. Ralph Waldo Emerson godlybeerfood Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. Ralph Waldo Emerson eating-goodfoodlife The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. Ralph Waldo Emerson congratulationsgreatnesssuccess Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. Ralph Waldo Emerson usapatrioticeye A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson attitudeinspirationalchildren What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. Ralph Waldo Emerson eyereadingbook Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. Ralph Waldo Emerson painsilencepoetry Do what we can, summer will have its flies. Ralph Waldo Emerson insectsgardensummer All my hurts my garden spade can heal. Ralph Waldo Emerson spadesgardenhurt Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. Ralph Waldo Emerson naturetimelife Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding Ralph Waldo Emerson horseunderstandingpower Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it Ralph Waldo Emerson enthusiasm-for-lifetriumphmovement Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. Ralph Waldo Emerson fruitwayfall Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson memorial-dayheromeaningful
