An Emerson CalendarThis superb collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes is divided into days of the year. Each day contains a unique excerpt from Emerson's array of pleasant and intellectually stimulating prose. It serves as the perfect Emerson bedside companion whether you're waking up to a new day or lying down for a night of rest. Emerson's selected thoughts are genuine, inspiring, original and beautiful. Treat yourself with a moment of Emerson's genius that will undoubtedly accompany you in your day or in your dreams. |
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action appear AUGUST beauty believe better bread character CIRCLES comes COMPENSATION CONSIDERATIONS CULTURE deal DECEMBER draw earth EIGHTEENTH EIGHTH eternal EXPERIENCE face faithful FATE fear FEBRUARY feel FIFTEENTH FIFTH fire force FOURTEENTH FRIENDSHIP genius GIFTS give heart hour human intellect JANUARY JULY JUNE kind land leave light live look MANNERS MARCH meet mind morning nature never NINTH NOVEMBER OCTOBER OVER-SOUL perfect persons POET poor presence REFORMER rich round SECOND seems SELF-RELIANCE sense SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH SEVENTH shine side simple SIXTEENTH SIXTH society soul SPIRITUAL LAWS strong suffer TENTH thee things THIRD THIRTEENTH THIRTIETH thou thought tion true truth TWENTY-EIGHTH TWENTY-FIRST TWENTY-NINTH TWENTY-SECOND TWENTY-THIRD universal virtue WEALTH whilst whole wish WOOD NOTES WORSHIP
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Page 44 - Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose!
Page 53 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it pleases not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye.
Page 114 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Page 29 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Page 45 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
Page 1 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 99 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Page 42 - The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky. Full of light and of deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird; Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
Page 112 - A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
Page 72 - Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
Bibliographic information
| Title | An Emerson Calendar |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Huntington Smith |
| Publisher | T.Y. Crowell, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 117 pages |
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