Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist....

We must be our own before we can be another's....

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Na...

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discov...

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in...

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us....

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot ...

What you are comes to you....

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars....

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do ...

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless....

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession...

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying...

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?...

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for...

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wi...

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I ...

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words....

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the...

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how so...

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. ...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and t...

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes...

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a l...

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make o...