Poet · American · 1803 – 1882 · 245 quotes
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet · American · 1803 – 1882
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
The first wealth is health.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Beauty without expression is boring.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Every artist was first an amateur.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Children are all foreigners.
Money often costs too much.
Reality is a sliding door.
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Nature hates calculators.
All mankind love a lover.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Our best thoughts come from others.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
There is always safety in valor.
Revolutions go not backward.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
What you are comes to you.
We are wiser than we know.
Every wall is a door.
