Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the… — 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
