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
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
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
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. — 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
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head? — 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
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
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
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is… — 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
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
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
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
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing,"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed… — 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 superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from 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
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