God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is mutable cloud which is always and never the same…... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Prayer that craves a particular commodity, -- anything less than all good, -- is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself which debt must I pay first, the debt to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature, as we know her, is no saint… She comes eating and drinking and sinning. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole. — 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
![“I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he]…” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7ff/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_boys_i-like-my-boy-with-his-endless-sweet-sol_2801205.png)
