Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what… — 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
A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
