But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are… — 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
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems… — 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
“Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat low even in hope. In the hour of vision, there is nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in… — 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
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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