Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel… — 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
