The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of… — 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
“It is race, is it not? that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; 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
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