Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We are born believing. A man bears belief, as a tree bears apples.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which… — 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
I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men,—that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief. — 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
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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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