If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives… — 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
