Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. — 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
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