Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more… — 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
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[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
He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. — 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
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. — 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