We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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