Emerson again

Our distrust is very expensive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 



Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 



Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 


Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 


People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 



Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 



If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson





For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Ralph Waldo Emerson