Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject… — 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
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on 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 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
