If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action… — 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
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — 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
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity. — 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
