He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole. — 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
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best. — 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
