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Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations; and this especial trap is laid to trip our feet with, and al...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompete...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis a queer life, and the only humour proper to it seems quiet astonishment. Others laugh, weep, sell, or proselyte. I admire.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count mysel...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far;...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thus, historically viewed, it has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
This clinches the bargain; Sails out of the bay; Gets the vote in the senate, Spite of Webster and Clay.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and y...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world,—this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquain...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it tu...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen by God is a transpare...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education often labors to si...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only he can give, who has; he only...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual creation, an...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from the connection ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson