A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care… — 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
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go… — 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
