Ralph Waldo Emerson: Trending quotes (page 10)

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

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

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”

“Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.”

“Love, and you shall be loved.”

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”

“Beauty without expression is boring.”

“Fear always springs
from ignorance.”

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.”

“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”

“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.”

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

“Every wall is a door.”