Famous Quotes / Ralph Waldo Emerson
1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 441. I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn ...
- 442. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- 443. I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cann ...
- 444. I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
- 445. I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
- 446. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
- 447. I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is transla ...
- 448. I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seld ...
- 449. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that ...
- 450. I find that the Americans have no passions; they have appetites.
- 451. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- 452. I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
- 453. I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midni ...
- 454. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- 455. I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of bein ...
- 456. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- 457. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
- 458. I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilara ...
- 459. I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose ...
- 460. I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.