Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wisdom of Emerson, as enlightening today as it was in the 19th century.

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Such should be the outward biography of a man in time, a putting off of dead circumstance day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept, if we would have it sweet and sound.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping, if it were not. #Experience

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But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us, is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. #Fate

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

I say to the universe, Mighty One! thou art not my mother. Return to chaos if thou wilt. I shall still exist. I live.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

I love the picturesque glitter of a summer's morning landscape. It kindles this burning admiration of nature and enthusiasm of mind.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things. #ThePoet

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

Ah how we wander from goal to goal of our life, and often it seems as if one thread of consciousness did not tie the far parts together.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

It is not to be denied that the agency of an individual may be immense. #letters #1827

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Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it. #Friendship

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. #Experience

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. #Nature

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

The astonishment of life, is, the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between theory and practice of life. #MontaigneOrTheSkeptic

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. #Experience

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

In sickness , in languor, give us a strain of poetry, or a profound sentence, and we are refreshed. #TheOversoul

[Ralph Waldo Emerson @dailyemerson]

If we filled the day with bravery, we should not shrink from celebrating it. #ThePoet