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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
connection, Divine providence, The Connection, Vibrates
«Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.»
«A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.»
«Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.»
«Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
consumer, producer, producers, The producer, The Producers
«Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.»
«There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.»
«Beauty rests on necessities.»
«Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
approbation, corn, earn, epics, planting, the senses
«Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.»
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