One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men." — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects,… — 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
Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to-… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame… — 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
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