Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. >>

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. >>

Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him >>

Quotations about Rejection

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. >>

We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow re >>

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may b >>

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo