Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Click here for Ralph Waldo Emerson books The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics) "Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy." "Never read a book that is not a year old." "A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic." "The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity." "Man is a god in ruins." "There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact." "The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made" "Nothing can be preserved that is not good." "The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever." "There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love." "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered." "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart." "The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide." "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." "Blessed are those who have no talent!" "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." "The ancestor of every action is a thought." "History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all." "There is properly no history; only biography." "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." "Power is in nature the essential measure of right." "For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something." "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." "The less government we have, the better - the fewer laws, and the less confided power." "Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well." "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." "We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy." "Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it." "Every hero becomes a bore at last." "The true test of
civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no,
but the kind of man the country turns out."
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