Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.

I pay the School Master but tis the school boys that educate my son.

The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.

There is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.

The world belongs to the energetic.

Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house though it be in the woods.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.

A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.

Give all to love obey thy heart.

AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.