Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The years teach much the days never know."
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"The years teach much the days never know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form."
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
"The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision."
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
"In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me"
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
"Every natural action is graceful."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
"The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... -Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature and Selected Essays
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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