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
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together. — 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
