Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations. — 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
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier… — 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
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but… — 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
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their… — 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
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a… — 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
That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a… — 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 of life from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,… — 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
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
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
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
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop,… — 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
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
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/quotes/i/7ff/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_boys_i-like-my-boy-with-his-endless-sweet-sol_2801205.png)
