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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It came into him life, it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went from him poetry. It was a dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in porportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it live.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson