Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;and thatis… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude… — 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
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. — 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
