When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men. — 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
Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. — 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
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with… — 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
