The ancestor of every action is a thought... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The faith that stands on authority is not faith... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first wealth is health... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free and some books make us free... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science does not know its debt to imagination... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolutions go not backward... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest revelation is that God is in every man... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality is a sliding door... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame.. view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?.. view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing external to you has any power over you... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature hates calculators... view
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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