"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Eyes speak all languages." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualities are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humour, vast curiosity, good silence and nothing too much." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who does good to others does good to himself." ~R. Emerson
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they made me." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the woods is perpetual youth.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the woods we return to reason and faith.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let the bird sing without deciphering the song." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection. The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought or happy expression; but it is necessary to write a letter to a friend, and, forthwith, troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only person you destined to become is the person you decide to be." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." ~Ralph Waldo
"The salvation of mankind depends upon independent thinkers, directing their thoughts rightly." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wise person in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endanger us, not the storm without." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The years teach us what the days never knew." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”"~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to man but through the toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be great is to be misunderstood." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wise person in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endanger us, not the storm without." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The years teach us what the days never knew." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”"~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to man but through the toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be great is to be misunderstood." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day . . . is too dear with its hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Travel is a fools paradise." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Travel is a fools paradise." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are all inventors...guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot part with our friends; we cannot let our angels go." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We change, whether we like it or not." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must be our own before we can be another's." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We never touch but at points." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is the one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions , as when, being thirsty, I drink water, or go to the fire, being cold: no! but I am first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself, as it were in flashes of light, in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals, and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base, whereon flocks graze, and shepherds pipe and dance." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When I discover who I am, I'll be free." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When it is darkest, men see the stars.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. (Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay), you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You have just dined, and however the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"God, who gave to him the lyre,
Of all mortals the desire,
For all breathing men's behoof,
Straitly charged him, "Sit aloof;"
Annexed a warning, poets say,
To the bright premium,--
Ever, when twain together play,
Shall the harp be dumb." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Men consort in camp and town
But the poet dwells alone." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"There is no architect
Can build as the Muse can;
She is skilful to select
Materials for her plan." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When it is darkest, men see the stars.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. (Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay), you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You have just dined, and however the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
VERSES
"God, who gave to him the lyre,
Of all mortals the desire,
For all breathing men's behoof,
Straitly charged him, "Sit aloof;"
Annexed a warning, poets say,
To the bright premium,--
Ever, when twain together play,
Shall the harp be dumb." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Men consort in camp and town
But the poet dwells alone." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"There is no architect
Can build as the Muse can;
She is skilful to select
Materials for her plan." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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