The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as… — 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
