A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him… — 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
The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight… — 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
