We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes… — 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
A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread. — 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
