The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he… — 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
