Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on… — 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
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds. — 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
