Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. — 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
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds… — 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
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature tyrannizes over our works. They must be conformed to her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected, -- the work of genius. And the individual, in whom… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Prayer that craves a particular commodity, -- anything less than all good, -- is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. — 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
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is mutable cloud which is always and never the same…... — 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
