For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson If we live truly, we shall see truly. Ralph Waldo Emerson positivity work positive The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. Ralph Waldo Emerson soul hero justice Every man is an impossibility until he is born. Ralph Waldo Emerson possibility born men The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. Ralph Waldo Emerson quality flow imagination The first point of courtesy must always be truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson courtesy manners firsts Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. Ralph Waldo Emerson angel inspiring men You never know how you look through other people's eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye people looks My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all. Ralph Waldo Emerson fathers-day inspirational children Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know Ralph Waldo Emerson bleach sunshine snow Knowledge exists to be imparted. Ralph Waldo Emerson teaching education inspirational He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. Ralph Waldo Emerson adversity soul mind The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson matter mind memories When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. Ralph Waldo Emerson philosophical reflection life The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson horse stars flower There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. Ralph Waldo Emerson work philosophy art If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. Ralph Waldo Emerson success pigs men Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. Ralph Waldo Emerson health exercise life Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Ralph Waldo Emerson criminals glasses earth No man can have society upon his own terms. Ralph Waldo Emerson term society men Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson honesty doe men
