The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. — 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
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other. — 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
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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