Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper… — 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
