Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing… — 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
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for… — 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
