Quote

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Love
Shown
Dependent
Therefore
Young
Persons
Pedigree
Person
Immaculate
Self
Derived
Even
Reliance

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
America means opportunity, freedom, power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Do your thing, and I shall know you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Lose yourself in nature and find peace
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
Ralph Waldo Emerson