Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but… — 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
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — 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
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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