People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. — 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
Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they… — 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
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if… — 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
Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — 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
