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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give no bounties:...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give no bounties:...

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Here once the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Here once the...

Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.


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Ralph Waldo Emerson: In every man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: In every man...

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is proof...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is proof...

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Judge of your...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Judge of your...

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Let the stoics...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Let the stoics...

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Let us, if...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Let us, if...

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Make the most...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Make the most...

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Source: From Charades,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man is physically...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man is physically...

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Many eyes go...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Many eyes go...

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

Source: In The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nations have lost...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nations have lost...

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man was born...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man was born...

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: No power of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: No power of...

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men lose their...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men lose their...

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Money, which represents...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Money, which represents...

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its...

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Boris Pasternak: Art is interested...

Boris Pasternak: Art is interested...

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Hating people is...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Hating people is...

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Source: In...

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Henry Ward Beecher: A book is...

Henry Ward Beecher: A book is...

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of...

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Henry Ward Beecher: And what the...

Henry Ward Beecher: And what the...

And what the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.

Source: In...

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Henry Ward Beecher: God's providence is...

Henry Ward Beecher: God's providence is...

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

Source:
-- Henry Ward Beecher,...

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