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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson 81-120
81 Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
82 A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
83 The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
84 Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
85 With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
86 There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there
87 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
88 Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. it cannot have both.
89 Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
90 People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
91 For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you
92 I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warn day like corn and melons.
93 A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
94 Make yourself necessary to somebody.
95 Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
96 We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
97 The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
98 In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
99 Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
100 We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
101 A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
102 Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
103 Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
104 Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
105 Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
106 The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
107 For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
108 People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
109 Men are what their mothers made them.
110 In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
111 There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
112 Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
113 We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
114 The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
115 Hitch your wagon to a star.
116 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
117 Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
118 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes
119 We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of nature.
120 Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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