Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Land Quotes

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Land Quotes

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Men Quotes

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Karma Quotes , Wise Quotes

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Doe Quotes

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , Flames Quotes

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Politics Quotes , Deals Quotes

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fire Quotes , People Quotes

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Soul Quotes , Feds Quotes

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Two Quotes , History Quotes

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Tree Quotes

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Parent Quotes

The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Loneliness Quotes

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Garden Quotes , Lakes Quotes

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Men Quotes

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Eye Quotes

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Thank You Quotes , Lying Quotes

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Men Quotes

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Stars Quotes