If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go… — 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