“There is no history; there is only biography,” Emerson once wrote.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Here’s to losing Emerson, and finding Em again!” I raised the shot glass in the air.” — Kimberly Lauren Copy Share Image
“And that was it: the profound pearls of wisdom from the lips of Douglas Emerson III.” — Jaime Reed Copy Share Image
“Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “We are always getting ready to live, but never living.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way to have a friend is to be one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Emerson loved the good and his life was a symphony of peace and harmony, Carlyle hated the bad, and his life was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (attrib.)” — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
There was a sketch group at Emerson, and if you could believe it, we were the cool kids. That's how Emerson rolls.… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
“How come no one understood me, and more importantly, how come I was starting to not understand myself?” — Kimberly Lauren Copy Share Image
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson” — Improve Life Books Copy Share Image
“Emerson tried to teach us that there can be infinite beauties in a little space—untold joys within a day—and he asks us… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
“Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only people who are not in awe of Emerson's powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Emerson, you just shared your deepest secret with me. I value that. Don't make light of it." If he wasn't already holding… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
“It was Waldo Emerson who would stay, bound to his “imperfect” marriage “because he dont believe in any thing better,” and unable… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“{ McCabe on the influential scientist Luther Burbank } His magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“Perseverance. Force of purpose. Indomitable will. Those traits were once uniquely part of the American DNA. But they’ve been weakening for some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
“Mr. Emerson watched, almost breathless, as she swirled the wine in her glass expertly, then lifted it so that she could examine… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“He smiled affably at the burglar, a burly fellow whom he continued to hold with one hand, as easily as if he… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“The words of Ralph Waldo Emerson came back to me: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people… — Nancy Many Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Emerson lifts his head. His eyes are two dark pools of desire, a clouded night’s sky. He catches his breath a moment,… — Melody Grace Copy Share Image
“He is very much in love with Liz Emerson,and it seems that she will never know.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson” — Liza M. Wiemer Copy Share Image
If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation. — Bradford Morrow Copy Share Image
“Emerson said: “Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.” — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
