Ralph Waldo Emerson: Trending quotes (page 36)

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”

“The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made … Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities … Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.”

“The poor, short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.”

“Plato was synthesis of Europe and Asia, and a decidedly Oriental element pervades his philosophy, giving it a sunrise color.”

“I find men victims of illusions in all parts oflife. Children, youths, adults and old men, all are led by one bauble or another. Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion, is stronger than the Titans, stronger than Apollo.”

“The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible.”

“Slavery is disheartening; but Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself of every last wrong. But the spasms of nature are centuries and ages and will tax the faith of short-lived men. Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival. They say, "God may consent, but not forever."”

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.”

“There is a crack in every thing God has made.”

“Life is a progress, and not a station.”

“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”

“Our distrust is very expensive.”

“Skill to do comes of doing.”

“We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”

“Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.”

“Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.”

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”

“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”

“So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.”