One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — 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
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend.… — 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
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
Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers,… — 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
Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that… — 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
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
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Up and away for life! be fleet!- The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. — 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
