Top 86 Where Is Waldo Quotes
#2. She studies my face as if she is playing Where's Waldo, except she's hunting for a lie instead of a weirdo in a hat.
Elle Kennedy
#3. All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. There is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are
And it cometh everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law ... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. Don't follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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#25. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is night; and history is an impertinence and an injury, if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#46. The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. There is something in the universe that responds to brave, intrepid thought. The Power that holds and that moves the stars in their courses, fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has power and magic in it.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#68. But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#79. Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism ... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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