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2b915ed Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. Ralph Waldo Emerson
63a2470 Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson
3516f93 Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
849837c Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays. Ralph Waldo Emerson
5fdaf95 Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
af6359b He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread. Ralph Waldo Emerson
0a195d5 Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. Ralph Waldo Emerson
3177b6d Deep in the man sits fast his fate To mould his fortunes, mean or great. Ralph Waldo Emerson
f339e42 Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime. Ralph Waldo Emerson
046ca2e For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson
a4d7dd4 In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part. Ralph Waldo Emerson
65e3a8f Ever from one who comes to-morrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c3a86f0 The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson
505f783 The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
aed0162 The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4f52f21 Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson
045e06c Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science. Ralph Waldo Emerson
851bc50 Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Ralph Waldo Emerson
0c64774 We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. Ralph Waldo Emerson
f04d145 There is no knowledge that is not power. Ralph Waldo Emerson
2d33754 Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson
f182ebe The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson
6dc9e94 The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. Ralph Waldo Emerson
5fdace7 Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson
428983c Science does not know its debt to imagination. Ralph Waldo Emerson
d8c1289 Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
b0d9976 Music is the poor man's Parnassus. Ralph Waldo Emerson
54822f0 The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
17b1480 This world belongs to the energetic. Ralph Waldo Emerson
7b63187 Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson
b95c9cb A good symbol is the best argument and is a missionary to persuade thousands. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c1e50d2 Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson
6afe62f The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be heroic. Ralph Waldo Emerson
bf4df49 The gods sell anything to everybody at a fair price. Ralph Waldo Emerson
1ca4dae Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
9097aab By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. Ralph Waldo Emerson
70411db There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. Ralph Waldo Emerson
26799e0 To live without duties is obscene. Ralph Waldo Emerson
8b23580 Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
609906e For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? Ralph Waldo Emerson
353c309 If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Ralph Waldo Emerson
7f2d517 Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
f9236c4 Heartily know, The gods arrive. Ralph Waldo Emerson
5427928 Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. Ralph Waldo Emerson