Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: nature
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: truth
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: friends
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: spiritual
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: happiness
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: individuality attributed-no-source be-yourself accomplishment conformity
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: vegetarianism food ethics animal-cruelty diet ethical slaughterhouse vegan veganism vegetarian
A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: possibilities
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