No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his… — 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
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