The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!] — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last… — 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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