Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“let him look into [fear's] eye and search its nature, inspect its origin, - see the whelping of this lion, - which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now. — 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