Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is too thin a screen

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is God's handwriting

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole world burns and sparkles with light

To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind
the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole world burns and sparkles with light

To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind
the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Te revealer of truth

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul knows only the soul

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world globes itself in a drop of dew

The world globes itself in a drop of dew. … The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all parts in every moss and cobweb.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The independence of solitude

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but great are those who in the midst of the crowd keep with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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