Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who… — 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
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