His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air. — 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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God.… — 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
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say.… — 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
