People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is...

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is...

The ancestor of every action is a thought

The ancestor of every action is a thought

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on...

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on...

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will...

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will...

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and...

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and...

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform...

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform...

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

A man is a God in ruins.

A man is a God in ruins.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on...

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on...

The best part of health is fine disposition

The best part of health is fine disposition

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom...

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes...

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.