Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!

Skill to do comes of doing.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

a good reader makes a good book

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.

The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision

The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew

I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

Apa yang kita fikir ibarat bunga,bahasa ibarat putik,manakala tindakan adalah buahnya.

Permanence is but a word of degrees.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

On him the light of star and moon Shall fall with purer radiance down... Him Nature giveth for defence His formidable innocencn; The mounting sap, the shells, the sea, All spheres, all stonse, his helpers be...

Satu-satunya cara untuk mendapat sahabat ialah dengan menjadi sahabat.

But as this fugitive sunlight Arrested & fixed And with the primal atoms mixed Is plant & man & rock So a fleeing thought Taken up in act & wrought Makes the air & the sun And hurls new systems out to run

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

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