There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it… — 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
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against… — 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
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and… — 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
