We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.' — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who… — 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
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
