Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson