All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal."… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the… — 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
