The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and… — 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
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
