Buschbacher Emerson Quotes

#1. We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations! #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. On the list of things that are the worst about life, missing chances will always be number one. #Quote by Kevin Emerson

#3. The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. It is time to be old
To take in sail. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. There was something else amusing about the house: the irony that the most important battle of the American Revolution--the shoot-out at the Old North Bridge--had taken place just outside the residence of the pacifist Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, Emerson was born after the battle in 1803, but his grandfather had been living in the house at the time of the Revolution, and the juxtaposition of such pacifism against such violence struck Paul as a symbol of an eternal truth about American history: Nixon, that goofy Vietnam War mortician, was right: the silent majority ruled (not the rebellious, pacifist fringe); the majority killed for their property; and there was nothing really revolutionary about the minutemen , who won a war and took over the entire country to ultimately build fast-food restaurants and Disneyland while abolitionists, pacifists, hippies, and environmentalists were left to make well-intended flatulent noises--to write poems such as Ginsberg's "Howl"--in books for other defeated noisemakers. #Quote by Josh Barkan

#16. No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. To be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson #Quote by Thom S. Rainer

#24. Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king? #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. Do not say things. Who you are thunders over you all the while so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. The eye is the best of artists. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. There is no history; only biography. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. To Laugh Often & to Love much #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#38. The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#39. We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general. #Quote by Jacqueline Emerson

#42. I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front. #Quote by Keith Emerson

#43. Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson