Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him. — 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
