Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in… — 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
