To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on 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
