EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : When a whole nation is roaring �Patriotism� at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of heart. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : The lady declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Whatever limits us we call Fate. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : God enters by a private door into every individual. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : When a whole nation is roaring 'Patriotism' at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of heart. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Language is a city to which every human being brought a stone for the building of it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : A friend is a masterpiece of nature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops -- no, but the kind of man the country turns out. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : 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 Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Do not follow where the path leads. Rather, go where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : To learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Every burned book enlightens the world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : The first wealth is health. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Difficulties exist to be surmounted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Make yourself necessary to somebody. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO : Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)