Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency… — 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
Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel… — 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
