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Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord’s power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others’ virtues (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar’s idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men’s transcripts of their readings (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When we can’t piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)