Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never...

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never...

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say...

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say...

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the...

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the...

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle...

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle...

To be great is to be misunderstood.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house...

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house...

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

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

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to...

A nation never falls but by suicide

A nation never falls but by suicide

Earth laughs in flowers.

Earth laughs in flowers.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the...

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the...