Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“brings domesticity and common sense, and that propriety which every man loves, directly into this hurly-burly, and makes every bully ashamed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive, — a statement possible,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
