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Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Men, Raw Materials
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Clouds, Expression

The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Believe, Inspiration
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Reading, Mean
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.99, Harvard University Press

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Self, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.433, Modern Library

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
World, Influence, Made
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Writing, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Fighting, Hot
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.209, Penguin

Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Writing, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.152, Harvard University Press

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Writing, Eye

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Issues, Facts
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.47, Harvard University Press

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Order, Unity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning, Nature, Stars
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.39, Harvard University Press

The eye is the best of artists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Eye, Artist
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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 nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Expression, Different
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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 the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect, Art, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.539, Рипол Классик

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Real, Abiding

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Art, Muse
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.150, The Floating Press

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Cities, Greek
The Conduct of Life "Wealth" (1860)

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Nature, Broken
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.379

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Power, Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.423, Harvard University Press

Our prayers are prophets.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer, Prophet, Our Prayers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2372, Delphi Classics

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer, Men, Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.129, Penguin

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer, Commodity, Vicious
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.53

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Jesus, Brother
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2905, Delphi Classics

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