quotes from classic

Sweet is death forevermore. Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin, Nor murdering hate, can enter in. All is now secure and fast.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual creation, an...

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

But in a hundred high schools and colleges, this warfare against common-sense still goes on. Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing ...

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good intention clothes itself with power.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;—...

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson