We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled: only… — 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
