Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Every man is an impossibility until he is born; every thing impossible until we see a success.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait… — 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
