The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement, and manufacture of public opinion; and excellence is lost sight of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the… — 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
