It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.' — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have… — 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
