Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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
Walking
Skating
Beauty
Performer
Right
Admirable
Writing
Carries
Kind
Carrie
Good
Added
Would
Performers
Like
Speed
More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear and you shall never find that perception again never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Noblesse oblige or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is the symbol of Spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think all men know better than they do know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles but they darenot trust their presentiments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten even so, they have made me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hero is he who is immovably centered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson