5 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Purpose

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on purpose

91. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

170. Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.

224. He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

284. To live without duties is obscene.

295. My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle.