[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God had infinite time to give us… He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others… — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to 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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