" Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We are always getting ready to live but never living." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥16SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥15SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
" 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 ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥13SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥20SharePinTweet0 SharesInspirational QuotesLife QuotesMotivational QuotesPositiveQuotes Gallery
" Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥14SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
