Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — 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
