A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — 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
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — 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
