“Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance” and other Quotes by Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American thinker, writer and poet. Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1803. Emerson died in 1882.
Emerson is famous as one thought-leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a gifted writer and is very often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected here several of his most famous quotes for your reading pleasure.
The Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson …
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
Money often costs too much.
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
In the woods is perpetual youth.
Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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