Freedom's secret wilt thou know? Counsel not with flesh and blood; Loiter not for cloak or food; Right thou feelest, rush to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. Theydid not know… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder willspeak out of stone walls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deepcalls unto deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of thisweb of God, but always circular power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a concert, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sin seen from the thought, is a diminution or less: seen from the conscience or will, itis pravity or bad. The intellectnames… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And one may say boldly that no man has a right perceptionof any truth who has not been reacted on by it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Standing on the bare ground,my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,all mean egotism vanishes. I become a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A third felicity of age is that ithas found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That book is good Which puts me in a working mood. Unless to Thought be added Will Apollo is an imbecile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The magnanimous know verywell that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the strangerso it be done for love, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great object of Educationshould be commensurate withthe object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me the eye to see a navy in an acorn. What is there of the divine in a load of bricks?What… — 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
