Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

topic:good evil

“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

topic:nature

“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

topic:nature stars

“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect

topic:reason trust

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:education ignorance

“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:society

“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:society

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:society loneliness independence

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

topic:writing reading

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:work peace

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