All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily… — 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
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 we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things… — 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
