Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of...

#Shame

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

#Talent

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to...

#Talent

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

#Taxation

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it...

#Society

A nation never falls but by suicide

#Society

Society is a hospital of incurables.

#Society

An empire is an immense egotism.

#Egotism, #Society

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

#Solution

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

#Cheerfulness, #Temper

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes...

#Temptation

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

#Thought