What many people do not know about Ralph Waldo Emerson is that he was a pastor in a church in Boston. His religious and philosophical thinking, as well as the influence of other writers of his time, led him to become deeply interested in transcendentalism. Here is a list of Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes to gain from.
- Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.
- By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Oh, tenderly the haughty day, Fills his blue urn with fire.
- The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
- God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
- Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
- Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
- In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
- Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.