There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do.… — 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
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain… — 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
Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished… — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible” — 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
