Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person… — 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
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope… — 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
