The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau Quotes

“We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life. (Ams Pr Inc June 2004) Originally published 1841.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau

“No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau

“We as we read must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau

“You must get your living by loving.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau