The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine — 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
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain. — 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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