Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fill the hour??that is happiness.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

The health of the eye demands a horizon.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

Thought is the seed of action.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

The first wealth is health.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.