Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Nature Quotes

We must be our own before we can be another's.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

A man is a God in ruins

A man is a God in ruins

The best part of health is fine disposition

The best part of health is fine disposition

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge...

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge...

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make...

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make...

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of...

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of...

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what...

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what...

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

Knowledge exists to be imparted

Knowledge exists to be imparted

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which...

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which...

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It...

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It...

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive...

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive...

I like food and sleep. If I give you my food or text you all...

I like food and sleep. If I give you my food or text you all...

Pain: an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that...

Pain: an uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that...