He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those… — 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
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
