--- title: "27 Draws Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "27 Draws quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Draws sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_draws_only-that-mind-draws-me-which-i-cannot-r_642172.png" --- > [Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/only-that-mind-draws-me-which-i-cannot-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_draws_only-that-mind-draws-me-which-i-cannot-r_642172.png) > [A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-painter-told-me-that-nobody-could-draw-a-tree-without-in-some-sort/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/694/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_artist_a-painter-told-me-that-nobody-could-draw_655828.png) > [There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-no-event-greater-in-life-than-the-appearance-of-new-persons/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/379/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_appearance_there-is-no-event-greater-in-life-than-t_361392.png) > [There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-a-good-ear-in-some-men-that-draws-supplies-to-virtue-out-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72b/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_draws_there-is-a-good-ear-in-some-men-that-dra_1381135.png) > [Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-draw-a-lesson-from-nature-which-always-works-by-short-ways/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4b/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_draws_let-us-draw-a-lesson-from-nature-which-a_294615.png) > [Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/draw-if-thou-canst-the-mystic-line-severing-rightly-his-from-thine/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/266/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_divine_draw-if-thou-canst-the-mystic-line-sever_2827279.png) > [There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-nothing-we-value-and-hunt-and-cultivate-and-strive-to-draw/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_destruction_there-is-nothing-we-value-and-hunt-and-c_2793320.png) > [A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-garden-is-like-those-pernicious-machineries-which-catch-a-man-s/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdb/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_arms_a-garden-is-like-those-pernicious-machin_1090607.png) > [The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-borrowing-is-often-honest-enough-and-comes-of-magnanimity-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a02/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_borrowing_the-borrowing-is-often-honest-enough-and_2520947.png) > [Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/masses-are-rude-lame-unmade-pernicious-in-their-demands-and-influence/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_break_masses-are-rude-lame-unmade-pernicious-i_2638800.jpg) > [A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-painter-told-me-that-nobody-could-draw-a-tree-without-in-some-sort-2/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a41/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_artist_a-painter-told-me-that-nobody-could-draw_2216646.png) > [Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/talent-finds-its-models-methods-and-ends-in-society-exists-for/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_architecture_talent-finds-its-models-methods-and-ends_1322160.png) > [Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/genius-is-the-naturalist-or-geographer-of-the-supersensible-regions/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_accepted_genius-is-the-naturalist-or-geographer-o_2847383.jpg) > [Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-day-of-dependence-our-long-apprenticeship-to-the-learning-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96b/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_apprenticeship_our-day-of-dependence-our-long-apprentic_809560.png) > [And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/and-the-glory-of-character-is-in-affronting-the-horrors-of-depravity/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f24/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_art_and-the-glory-of-character-is-in-affront_2873057.png) > [And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/and-what-is-genius-but-finer-love-a-love-impersonal-a-love-of-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_causes_and-what-is-genius-but-finer-love-a-love_3004048.png) > [Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-is-a-portable-climate-it-carries-the-heat-of-the-tropics-to/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_boat_coal-is-a-portable-climate-it-carries-th_176178.png) > [A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-should-not-go-where-he-cannot-carry-his-whole-sphere-or-society/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/153/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_associates_a-man-should-not-go-where-he-cannot-carr_2195283.png) > [Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/doubt-not-o-poet-but-persist-say-it-is-in-me-and-shall-out-stand/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_conductor_doubt-not-o-poet-but-persist-say-it-is-i_2894887.png) > [The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-crime-which-bankrupts-men-and-states-is-job-work-declining-from/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b81/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_crime_the-crime-which-bankrupts-men-and-states_600201.jpg) > [The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-purpose-of-life-seems-to-be-to-acquaint-a-man-with-himself-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/930/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_the-purpose-of-life-seems-to-be-to-acqua_3141757.jpg) > [If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-the-colleges-were-better-if-they-had-the-power-of-imparting/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/430/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_causes_if-the-colleges-were-better-if-they-had_1864726.png) > [The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-earth-is-a-machine-which-yields-almost-gratuitous-service-to/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/621/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_air_the-earth-is-a-machine-which-yields-almo_1943443.png) > [Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/who-shall-set-a-limit-to-the-influence-of-a-human-being-there-are-men/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_accompany_who-shall-set-a-limit-to-the-influence-o_3089390.jpg) > [A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-must-thank-his-defects-and-stand-in-some-terror-of-his-talents/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_defects_a-man-must-thank-his-defects-and-stand-i_1919580.png) > [In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-private-places-among-sordid-objects-an-act-of-truth-or-heroism/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73e/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_arms_in-private-places-among-sordid-objects-a_1035698.png) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/299/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_companion_a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself_1772.png) ## Other authors on Draws ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. 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