There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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 your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson