Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already...

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but kn...

"Every wall is a door."...

"Every artist was first an amateur."...

"I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appet...

"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to...

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

"Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live"...

"Insist on yourself; never imitate."...

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something e...

"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."...

"Make yourself necessary to somebody."...

"Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal."...

"The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than t...

"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repos...

"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the t...

"People only see what they are prepared to see."...

"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."...

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can affo...

"A friend is the hope of the heart."...

"A friend is one before whom you may think aloud."...

"God enters by a private door into every individual."...

"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim sec...

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted ou...

"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assai...