I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anewÂ… it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being… — 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
