[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is not to simply be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these tests, — a country where knowledge cannot be diffused… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement, and manufacture of public opinion; and excellence is lost sight of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. — 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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