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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circles, Soul, Turns

The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Soul, Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Feds, Faculty
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.231

The soul knows no persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Persons, Knows
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.107, Harvard University Press

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Soul, Foundation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.413, Harvard University Press

All things are known to the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Soul, All Things

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Men, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.63, Coyote Canyon Press

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Doe, Body
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2683, Delphi Classics

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Soul, World

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self, Soul, Society
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Self, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.453, Library of America

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jewels, Soul, United States
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity, Soul, Never Quit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Remembrance, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1329, Delphi Classics

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Soul, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1133, Delphi Classics

A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journey, Healthy, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.195, Cosimo, Inc.

Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Two, Soul

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

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

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tombstone, Hands, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Self Reliance, Spirit
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.28, Coyote Canyon Press

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Soul, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Soul, Departed
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.85, Penguin

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Soul, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.209, Jazzybee Verlag

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years, Soul, Cheerful
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.42, Coyote Canyon Press

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