Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. — 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
