The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the… — 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
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party… — 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
