Quotes on history

“Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Men are what their mothers made them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To fill the hour—that is happiness.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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