Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold… — 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
