If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it. — 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
Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards. — 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
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause… — 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
Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out… — 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
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion… — 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
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is… — 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
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your 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
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