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
Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and… — 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
