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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson