Ralph Waldo Emerson

All diseases run into one, old age.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

age
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

age
Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

age
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

anger
Every artist was first an amateur.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

art
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

art
Pictures must not be too picturesque.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

art
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

art
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

beauty
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

beauty
Beauty without expression is boring.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

beauty
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

beauty
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

beauty
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

beauty
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

beauty
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

best
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

best
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

best
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

best
Our best thoughts come from others.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

best
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

best
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

change
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

change
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

courage
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

courage
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

death
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

death
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

dreams
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

dreams
The years teach much which the days never know.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

experience
God enters by a private door into every individual.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

faith
Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

faith
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

faith
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

fear
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

fear
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

fear
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