Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Patience and fortitude conquer all things ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Patience and fortitude conquer all things ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A man is a God in ruins. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ If we encounter a man of rare intellect,we should ask him what books he reads. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The less government we have the better ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ We judge a man's wisdom by his hope. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Books are for nothing but to inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Love and you shall be loved. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ America is another name for opportunity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Life is a progress, and not a station. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ All diseases run into one, old age. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ We change, whether we like it or not ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ There is no knowledge that is not power. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ There is no knowledge that is not power ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The reality is more excellent than the report. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Reality is a sliding door. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Patience and fortitude conquer all things ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Patience and fortitude conquer all things ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A man is a God in ruins. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ If we encounter a man of rare intellect,we should ask him what books he reads. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The less government we have the better ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ We judge a man's wisdom by his hope. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Books are for nothing but to inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Love and you shall be loved. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ America is another name for opportunity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Life is a progress, and not a station. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ All diseases run into one, old age. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ We change, whether we like it or not ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ There is no knowledge that is not power. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ There is no knowledge that is not power ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ The reality is more excellent than the report. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Reality is a sliding door. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson