Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought… — 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
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse. Say to them, O father, O… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or… — 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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