Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
