We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at… — 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
As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Up and away for life! be fleet!- The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it… — 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
