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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Each man has...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Each man has...

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I do then...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I do then...

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man's...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man's...

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is very...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is very...

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It does not...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It does not...

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Let us be...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Let us be...

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man is a...

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man is a...

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is one...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is one...

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Life is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Life is a...

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature is a...

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Source: In The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men cease to...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men cease to...

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Life be not...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Life be not...

Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Source: In The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men are respectable...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men are respectable...

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature is methodical,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature is methodical,...

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Source:...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Next to the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Next to the...

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature. . ....

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature. . ....

Nature. . . She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Out of Plato...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Out of Plato...

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Talent alone cannot...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Talent alone cannot...

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is...

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Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Life, the permission to know death.

Source: Nightwood/ 1937
-- Djuna Barnes,...

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