All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. — 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
