Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. — 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
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he… — 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
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