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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or

The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Education, Winter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1523, Delphi Classics

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death, Summer, July
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Believe, Winter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Spring, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The World-Soul”

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Garden, Insects
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Senior, Autumn
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.354, Harvard University Press

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Stars, Lying
Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.163, Read Books Ltd

What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Men, Wind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Stars, Moon
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Sweet, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2657, Delphi Classics

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Morning, Spring

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Song, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.147, University of Georgia Press

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Summer, Stars
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

The dearest events are summer-rain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Rain, Events
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Rain, Reality
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.203, Penguin

Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Yield, Delight
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Song, Morning
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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