Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey. — 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