Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Heart Quotes, Eye Quotes

Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.

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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.

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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

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Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

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In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

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A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

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The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

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