The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of… — 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
