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“Good-Bye”
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“Literary Ethics”
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“Merlin’s Song”
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“Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing”
“Prospects”
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“Self-Reliance”
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“Wealth”
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“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late”
Ali Ben Abu Taleb
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Journal, 19 June 1838
Journal, 25 December 1843
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Journal, 4 November 1838
Letter to Margaret Fuller, 1840
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Prudence
Self-Reliance
St. Basil
The Fortune of the Republic
The Poet
“A man is known by the books he reads”
“A man is what he thinks about all day long”
“Art”
“Bacchus”
“Be of good cheer, brave spirit . . . ”
“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind”
“Beauty is God’s handwriting”
“Beauty”
“Beauty”
“Behavior”
“Borrowing. From the French.”
“Circles”
“Considerations by the Way”
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
“Every calling is great when greatly pursued”
“Everything has its beauty / But not everybody sees it”
“Experience”
“Experience”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”
“Friendship is a great thing in the science of joy”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Gifts”
“Give All to Love”
“Give me wine to wash me clean from the weather-stains of care”
“Go often to the house of thy friends, for weeds choke the unused paths”
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go”
“Greatness”
“Guard well your spare moments…”
“Hamatreya”
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others, without getting a few drops on yourself”
“Happiness, like a butterfly alighting, cannot be grasped and held . . . ”
“History”
“Idealism” [Nature]
“Introduction” [Nature]
“It is one of the blessings of old friends…”
“Love and you shall be loved”
“Make the most of yourself…”
“May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life”
“Michael Angelo”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine”
“Musketaquid”
“Nature is the art of God”
“Nature” [Nature]
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting”
“New England Reformers”
“Not gold, but only men can make / A nation great and strong”
“Oh man! There is no planet, sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are”
“Old Age”
“Once you make a decision the universe conspires to make it happen”
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail”
“Progress of Culture”
“Self-Reliance”
“Self-Reliance”
“Self-Reliance”
“Success”
“Success”
“The American Scholar”
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand . . . ”
“The Method of Nature”
“The only person you are destined to be is the person you decide to be”
“The Over-Soul”
“The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be”
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes . . .”
“The Snow-Storm”
“The speed of the leader determines the pace of the pack”
“The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more”
“There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer”
“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep”
“Think big. Talk little. Love much. Laugh easily. Work hard. Give freely. Pay cash and be kind. It’s enough.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
“To love and be loved is the greatest happiness”
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow”
“Waldeinsamkeit”
“We find in life exactly what we put into it”
“Wealth”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
“Whatever course you decide upon…”
“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows…”
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars”
“Works and Days”
“Written at Rome”
“Education”
“Each and All”
“Immortality”
images of ralph waldo emerson
Skip to content
Home
Emerson Photos
“At the End of the Sunset Trail”
“Land of Lullaby Dreams”
“transparent eyeball”
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
Composer Emerson
Emerson Busts
Emerson Medals
eyeball mask
The Existential Slapstick of Waldo and Emerson
Emerson’s Home
Emerson’s Study
Emerson Ephemera
“Father We Thank Thee”
“Success”
“The Mousetrap Saying”
Advertising Materials
Blotters
Bookends
Bookmarks
Calendars
Cigar Boxes
Daniel Chester French materials
Dinnerware
Emerson Centenary in 1903
Emerson Hall, Harvard
Emerson High School (Concord)
Emerson Hospital (Concord)
Harvard University (Emerson at)
Hollis Hall, Harvard
Lecture Ephemera
Miscellaneous
Playing Cards
Post Cards
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Stamps and First Day Covers
The Old Manse
Trading Cards
Trading Stamps
Illustrated Quotations
“a hero is…”
“Books”
“Books”
“Civilization”
“Compensation”
“Concord Hymn”
“Considerations by the Way”
“Domestic Life”
“Each and All”
“Fate”
“Finish Each Day”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Gifts”
“Good-Bye”
“Heroism”
“Illusions”
“Intellect”
“Literary Ethics”
“Love”
“Merlin’s Song”
“Nature”
“Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing”
“Prospects”
“Quotation and Originality”
“Self-Reliance”
“Self-Reliance”
“Self-Reliance”
“Social Aims”
“Social Aims”
“Voluntaries”
“Wealth”
“Woman”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late”
Ali Ben Abu Taleb
Journal, 1 May 1841
Journal, 11 November 1842
Journal, 15 October 1844
Journal, 19 April 1835
Journal, 19 June 1838
Journal, 25 December 1843
Journal, 31 October 1836
Journal, 4 November 1838
Letter to Margaret Fuller, 1840
Poems
Prudence
Self-Reliance
St. Basil
The Fortune of the Republic
The Poet
“A man is known by the books he reads”
“A man is what he thinks about all day long”
“Art”
“Bacchus”
“Be of good cheer, brave spirit . . . ”
“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind”
“Beauty is God’s handwriting”
“Beauty”
“Beauty”
“Behavior”
“Borrowing. From the French.”
“Circles”
“Considerations by the Way”
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
“Every calling is great when greatly pursued”
“Everything has its beauty / But not everybody sees it”
“Experience”
“Experience”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”
“Friendship is a great thing in the science of joy”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Friendship”
“Gifts”
“Give All to Love”
“Give me wine to wash me clean from the weather-stains of care”
“Go often to the house of thy friends, for weeds choke the unused paths”
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go”
“Greatness”
“Guard well your spare moments…”
“Hamatreya”
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others, without getting a few drops on yourself”
“Happiness, like a butterfly alighting, cannot be grasped and held . . . ”
“History”
“Idealism” [Nature]
“Introduction” [Nature]
“It is one of the blessings of old friends…”
“Love and you shall be loved”
“Make the most of yourself…”
“May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life”
“Michael Angelo”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine”
“Musketaquid”
“Nature is the art of God”
“Nature” [Nature]
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting”
“New England Reformers”
“Not gold, but only men can make / A nation great and strong”
“Oh man! There is no planet, sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are”
“Old Age”
“Once you make a decision the universe conspires to make it happen”
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail”
“Progress of Culture”
“Self-Reliance”
“Self-Reliance”
“Self-Reliance”
“Success”
“Success”
“The American Scholar”
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand . . . ”
“The Method of Nature”
“The only person you are destined to be is the person you decide to be”
“The Over-Soul”
“The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be”
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes . . .”
“The Snow-Storm”
“The speed of the leader determines the pace of the pack”
“The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more”
“There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer”
“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep”
“Think big. Talk little. Love much. Laugh easily. Work hard. Give freely. Pay cash and be kind. It’s enough.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
“To love and be loved is the greatest happiness”
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow”
“Waldeinsamkeit”
“We find in life exactly what we put into it”
“Wealth”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
“Whatever course you decide upon…”
“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows…”
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars”
“Works and Days”
“Written at Rome”
“Education”
“Each and All”
“Immortality”
“Everything has its beauty / But not everybody sees it”
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