We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies,… — 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
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real… — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyoneÂ… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is… — 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
