Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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