Selected Essays Quotes

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon,
and under every deep a lower deep opens.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays

“Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays

“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays

“Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays

“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson: Selected Essays

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the
truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature,
but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon,
and under every deep a lower deep opens.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays