Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds. — 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
The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, 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
