The solid, solid universe

The solid, solid universe
Is pervious to Love;
With bandaged eyes he never errs,
Around, below, above.
His blinding light
He flingeth white
On God's and Satan's brood,
And reconciles
By mystic wiles
The evil and the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 03.03.2018 03:03:03 5320 quotes

A ruddy drop of manly blood

A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 03.03.2018 03:03:03 5320 quotes

Love, which is the essence of ...

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Venus, when her son was lost,<...

Venus, when her son was lost,
Cried him up and down the coast,
In hamlets, palaces, and parks,
And told the truant by his marks,-
Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

A man's wife has more power ov...

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

it in every fair face, every f...

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Nature is an endless combinati...

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Nature never hurries: atom by ...

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

How cunningly nature hides eve...

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Presently we pass to some othe...

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

All men are poets at heart. Th...

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Nature is reckless of the indi...

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

The good rain, like a bad prea...

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

'In the woods we return to re...

'In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.'

In the vaunted works of Art, T...

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

Love not the flower they pluck...

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Respect the child. Be not too ...

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

It is impossible for a man to ...

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

When a whole nation is roaring...

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

If you are wise, you will drea...

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.