January 2012
12 posts
“Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thebig-a)
“See the power of national emblems. Some stars, lilies, leopards, a crescent, a...”
– Emerson, Essays: Second Series, The Poet (via the-transcendental)
“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
– Emerson (via notanothersongaboutyou)
“You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via exemplar1)
“I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via whatisworthlivingfor)
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“Man hopes; genius creates.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via be-do-have)
“Life is a festival only to the wise.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via quotationsblog)
Oct. 21, 1837: Diary Excerpt, Ralph Waldo Emerson
the-transcendental:
I said when I awoke, After some more sleepings & wakings I shall lie on this mattress sick; then, dead; and through my gay entry they will carry these bones. Where shall I be then? I lifted my head and beheld the spotless orange light of the morning beaming up from the dark hills into the wide universe.
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via iwanttocatchastar)
2012 is here! I hope you all had a safe and happy...
December 2011
12 posts
“Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to...”
–
Nature (1836)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(via stephybs20)
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via quote-book)
“The years teach much which the days never knew.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via carmencarroquino)
Oct. 9? 1832: Diary excerpt, Ralph Waldo Emerson
the-transcendental:
I will not live out of me…
Dec. 21, 1834: Diary excerpt, Ralph Waldo Emerson
the-transcendental:
Blessed is the day when the youth discovers that Within and Above are synonyms.
November 2011
16 posts
“Everything looks permanent until its secret is made known.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via formyfreedom)
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“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years, how man would...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via clavicola)
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“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (via katiedora7)
“No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (via katiedora7)
“A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via eloquentandhonest)
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via krismaryloves)
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via alittleboyabroad)
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt, but so are lies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via mylittledeath)
“Each moment has its own beauty. A picture which was never before and shall never...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via arrowsandartemis)
October 2011
9 posts
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Writer (via filedtogether)
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via watchmeeeee)
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via pherimoon)
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“Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensible office, - to teach elements....”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (via katiedora7)
“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (via katiedora7)
“The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (via katiedora7)
“The sun shines today also.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (via katiedora7)
September 2011
10 posts
“Every burned book enlightens the world.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via libraryland)