Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of… — 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
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — 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
Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid… — 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
