Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — 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
