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Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an i...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making crippl...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is t...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
An eminent teacher of girls said, 'the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.'
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art and power will go on as they have done,—will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art expresses the one, or the same by the different. Thought seeks to know unity in unity; poetry to show it by variety; that is, always by an...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materials which they w...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the h...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told: somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas: sometimes wit...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of natur...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its forms me...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a mise...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, 'I want none of your good boys,Mgive me the bad ones...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in--forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day--begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson