“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back… — 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.… — 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
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. — 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
