Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and… — 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
We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every… — 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
