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
But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. — 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
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than… — 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
Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. — 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
