The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant. He seems to take his task so minutely from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. — 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
