The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from… — 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
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