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
We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will… — 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
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
