Ralph Waldo Emerson Iron Quotations

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.