Quote

Blessed are those who have no talent!

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
Blessed
Talent

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Books are the best of things, well used abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson