Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and… — 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
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — 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 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
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,… — 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
