Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. >>

Everything intercepts us from ourselves. >>

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and moral >>

Quotations about Adventure

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. >>

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. D >>

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of se >>

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo