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
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
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.” — 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
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. — 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 reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power. — 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
The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight. — 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
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. — 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
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of… — 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 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
