Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. — 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
