The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach… — 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
