Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have… — 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
