The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings… — 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
