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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.»
«There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrives, conviction, envy, imitation, imitations, suicide, suicides
«Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.»
«Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances»
«I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. Shall i not call God The beautiful, who daily showth himself so to me in his gifts.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
awoke, devout, New Gods, thanksgiving, This Morning
«The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
by size, census, cities, civilization, Civilization I, country, cropped, crops, kind of, Of Man, size, sized, sizes, size up, sizing, test, the country, the true, turns
«Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
congratulate, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, decorous, extravagant, monotony
«Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Self-sacrifice
| Keywords:
Miracles, reported, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing
«The great man is not convulsible or tormentable, events pass over him without much impression»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
events, impression, pass, pass over, The Great, The Impressions
«The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
and the, eye, Eye of, illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, into, shines, shine at, Shining Through, sun, suns, The Eye, The Man, The Sun
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