“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Days" Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But if a man be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate… — 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
Up and away for life! be fleet!- The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — 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
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night,… — 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
