What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you. — 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
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — 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
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and make a trail.” — 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
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
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. — 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
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim. — 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
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak. — 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
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
