I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in… — 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
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the… — 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
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary,… — 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
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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