There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The magnanimous know verywell that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the strangerso it be done for love, and… — 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
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that… — 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
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. — 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
A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. — 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
Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the… — 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
