Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus

Life is a progress, and not a station.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

America means opportunity, freedom, power.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.