The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“let him look into [fear's] eye and search its nature, inspect its origin, - see the whelping of this lion, - which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and… — 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
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