“So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for… — 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
