“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. This is our permanent state.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
Love (Primary source)
In Love, Emerson explores the spiritual and transformative power of love, moving beyond mere sentiment. He argues that true love is an expression of the divine within us, elevating individuals and leading to a deeper understanding of universal beauty and truth.
“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
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“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)