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Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years, Moments, Nature Beauty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.16

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

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

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Sadness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.9

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus, Nature, Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.8, Courier Corporation

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Talent, Sensuality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Writing, Reality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer, Regret, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.33, Courier Corporation

Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Discovery, Aids
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.617, Library of America

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Higher Ground, Wells
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1554, Delphi Classics

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Body
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.5, Harvard University Press

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Giving, Curiosity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.41, Jazzybee Verlag

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Use, Remember
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.502, Harvard University Press

One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Forever, One Thing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Affection, Universal

The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Nature, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy, Nature, Fishing
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, Nature, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Ambition, Clubs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.151, Penguin

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Balance, Sides
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.217, Library of America

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Eye, Pride
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.65, Harvard University Press

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Men, Circles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Fire, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2454, Delphi Classics

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Genius, Known
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.154, Harvard University Press

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Ideas, Miracle
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cousin, Writing, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.635, Library of America

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