Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Worth
Inspirational
Would
Life
Surprises
Keeping
Surprise
Series
Taking
More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All science is transcendental or else passes away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is said, no man can write but one book and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation is a game of circles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
