In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of… — 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
