Faces Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a new face courage puts on everything!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson