Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. — 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
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. — 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
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — 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
