Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: imagination beauty
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: man woman attraction standard
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPractice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: inspirational
There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLet the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own ends, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race.
Ralph Waldo Emersonthere is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: potential
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: books american-scholar
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