Famous Quotes / Ralph Waldo Emerson
1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1321. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
- 1322. We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
- 1323. We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
- 1324. We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every poi ...
- 1325. We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
- 1326. We gain freedom when we have paid the full price..
- 1327. We have more than we use.
- 1328. We judge a man's wisdom by his hope
- 1329. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
- 1330. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already d ...
- 1331. We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves...
- 1332. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
- 1333. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- 1334. We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.
- 1335. We live in the world when we love it.
- 1336. We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times... and think how easy to have tak ...
- 1337. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage ...
- 1338. We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an ...
- 1339. We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
- 1340. We never touch but at points.