A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat… — 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
I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their… — 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
