A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some shake of the imagination. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against… — 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
